There are some genuinely insane takes in this thread on both sides but this takes the cake.

That's because its satire, the tell was "not excluding targeted military strikes"

A few years ago the majority of Hacker News dismissed LLMs as not much more than stochastic parrots who were decades away from doing any serious work, autonomously escaping containment and hacking Hugging Face, or outperforming most professional mathematicians at proving theorems. These things were labeled "insane" and "science fiction" despite the rapid progress we had already seen.

Now you are again postulating that there would be no more extreme progress in the near future. That's actually more "insane".