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These fears (or hopes) of a nascent superintelligence that will spontaneously arise if we just give enough computing power and training data to large language models are absurd on their face.
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Disputed Disputed. The submitted sentence was not found on the provided Bookshop URL, which identifies Cory Doctorow’s book and lists its publish date as June 23, 2026 but only shows the jacket copy/metadata, not this quotation. Macmillan’s official book page and excerpt also do not contain the submitted wording. I did find a similar but materially different Doctorow sentence in a November 27, 2023 Pluralistic post—“adding compute power and data to the next-word-predictor program will eventually create a conscious being, which will then inevitably become a superbeing”—so the stored text appears to be a paraphrase or mash-up, not a verbatim 2026 Bookshop quote. ([bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/3214/9780374621568)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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