> a red herring fueled by investor optics Exactly. Plus we kind of want to believe it. The "extrapolate to infinity" bias writ large. It's seductive. Step 1: A

> a red herring fueled by investor optics Exactly. Plus we kind of want to believe it. The "extrapolate to infinity" bias writ large. It's seductive. Step 1: AI that genuinely does some amazing things. Step 2: handwave, but look out Step 3: Super Intelligence and AI that does it all. "This changes everything" etc. And there are just enough green shoots to go all in on this idea (and I mean cult-level all in). In practice it plays out much closer to the author's sentiment. A useful tool. Perhaps even paradigm defining.