Meta's Vision for Superintelligence

Meta’s Motives and Track Record

• Many see the superintelligence pitch as investor/PR fluff, timed with earnings and following the Metaverse “faceplant,” not a credible vision.
• Recurrent theme: Meta’s business model is data extraction, behavior modification, and attention capture; “personal superintelligence” fits that perfectly (ads, psyops, propaganda), whatever the benevolent framing.
• Several argue Meta has already proven it will trade social wellbeing for engagement and profit, comparing it to “big tobacco” and calling it unfit to steward AGI.

Economic Impact, Abundance, and Inequality

• Strong skepticism that AI will “free” people: tech productivity gains historically flow to capital, not labor, and are eaten by rising rents and costs.
• Discussion of land rent and Jevons paradox: efficiency tends to increase total exploitation rather than leisure.
• Creators (artists, writers, musicians) already feel displaced; claims that AI will let “people create more” ring hollow.
• Side debate on wealth disparity and “class solidarity”: whether criticism should target billionaires only or also highly paid tech workers; some argue reducing inequality would mainly hit the middle class, not ultra-wealthy.

What Is “Superintelligence”? Is It Plausible?

• No shared definition: is it higher-than-human IQ, uncapped improvement, or many minds at scale?
• Some frame it as “smarter than humans in ways we can’t understand,” others note intelligence is multi-dimensional and embodied (dog vs human analogies).
• Several think current LLMs show no path to superintelligence; others note many domain experts do expect relatively near-term superhuman systems.
• Anthropic’s vending-machine experiments are cited both as evidence of rapid progress and as evidence that “super” is being oversold.

Open Source vs Safety

• Concern that Meta is preparing to stop open-sourcing its best models under a “safety” pretext, after loudly arguing that open source is safer and better “for the world” and “for the long term.”
• Some note Zuckerberg had previously signaled they’d close models once they became a key differentiator, so see less of a bait-and-switch.

Product Vision and Practicality

• “Personal superintelligence” is mocked against current basics (e.g., poor FB Marketplace search).
• Doubts about feasibility of offering powerful models to billions for “free,” and about security robustness (prompt injection, manipulation).
• Some commenters, though a minority, say they broadly agree superintelligence is coming and that working on its intersection with daily life is worthwhile—just not necessarily by Meta.

Broader Societal and Governance Fears

• Fears that a single company owning superhuman AI would destroy democratic checks and balances and concentrate unprecedented power.
• Calls to break up Meta or treat superintelligence as too dangerous to entrust to ad-driven megacorps.