Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August

Re:Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August by Lalabadie on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:25PM (#49794283)

I get the perspective from which you're making that statement, but the industry keeps moving its own goalposts.

Change is fast and abundant, and at the same time, it is hilariously more mundane than the dangerous-AGI-in-six-months tune we've been reading daily for years.

I would define it as a quick-moving market, but not nearly moving enough for the fantastic claims they make to justify ever-increasing funding.

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Re:Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August by a2dam on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:30PM (#49794324)

AI, if not AGI, has certainly become uniquely dangerous in the past 6 months though. We have a lot of evidence to that effect.

The best case scenario is a situation like Y2K: a ton of people coordinate and work hard to produce no perceptible change, because unlike catastrophe, averting catastrophe feels boring.

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Re:Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August by nonethewiser on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:30PM (#49794329)

>Change is fast and abundant, and at the same time, it is hilariously more mundane than the dangerous-AGI-in-six-months tune we've been reading daily for years.

Absolutely none of this points to “stagnant.” Stagnant is a terrible description of the AI industry.

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