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Comment by Cory Doctorow
Author and digital rights activist
Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. [...] one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive.AI Verified source (Dec 5, 2025)
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In context, the author is rejecting this idea: he calls fears about AI attaining sentience 'facially absurd,' says scaling a 'word-guessing program' will not make it sentient, and says superintelligence stories are not predictions. That clearly implies opposition to the claim that AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence. ([pluralistic.net](https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
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He treats that scenario as implausible: he says the idea is "facially absurd," argues that adding more scale to a "word-guessing program" will not make it sentient, and the source context adds that stories about superintelligence are "not business plans, roadmaps, or predictions." That strongly implies opposition to the claim that AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence. ([pluralistic.net](https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
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The Pluralistic post at the supplied URL contains both quoted passages in order: the sentence about "more words and GPUs" and, shortly after, the locomotive comparison. The page metadata identifies Cory Doctorow as the author and shows the post date as December 5, 2025. The stored author, date, source URL, and ellipsis-truncated content all match. ([pluralistic.net](https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
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replying to Cory Doctorow