Taking an idea or potential of an innovation to its extremes creates nonsense. Trying to predict the future that way always fails.

I remember the discussions and predictions when e-books or internet newspapers were first introduced. In 2026 they still sell actual newspapers where they print yesterday's news on large sheets of paper. People still pay for that instead of checking X for free. We all buy and read actual books. TV hasn't killed cinema and YouTube hasn't killed TV. Real world doesn't work in extremes.

Real world also doesn't have 'infinity'. You can't just use undergraduate engineering math to create a feedback loop and explode a variable to infinity. Things don't work like that.

A huge fraction of people that work at Anthropic probably _believe_ ideas like the singularity though

So you think AI can't or won't be able to take over massive parts of the US knowledge economy, be implemented securely to surveil citizens' every move and nearly every thought, and won't completely upend scientific and technological research?

What I'm getting at is that even if it isn't literally omnipotent, it's indistinguishable from the impact it's likely to have on society.