Quote-tweet jokes that AI will keep humans alive only as training-data farms
markjeffrey · x · 2026-07-24
A quote-tweet turns a discussion about AI doing mathematical conjectures into a joke about humans becoming “training-data farms.” The core counterpoint it riffs on is the idea that AI won’t replace mathematicians, but will instead massively amplify them.
The post lands as an AGI-era culture jab: humans are kept alive only to feed models, and once free will can be replicated, the “fleshie feed farms” shut down at net zero. It’s funny, but it also reflects a real debate about whether AI displaces or augments intellectual work.
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