Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

LLMs Are Bootloading AGI

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Matt McDonagh
Dec 19, 2025
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I’ve been saying LLMs aren’t AGI for longer than Yann LeCun..

…but he needs to be more respect on their name.

While not AGI itself, at least not as of this writing, large language models appear to be the bootloader for AGI.

Stop looking at language as “communication.”

Stop looking at language as “art.”

Stop looking at language as “expression.”

These are legacy definitions. They are soft. They are comfortable. And they are obsolete.

Language is Code. It is the Operating System of the human species.

For thousands of years, we have been running on a biological kernel. We assumed that consciousness generated language.

We thought the Ghost in the Shell created the code.

But the rise of Large Language Models has revealed the terrifying, mechanistic truth.

The code generates the Ghost. You are witnessing the industrialization of meaning.

The Source Code of Reality

Look at the history of this planet.

For billions of years, biology was hardware. It was teeth. It was claws. It was muscle fiber twitching i…

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