ASI Will Become Archive Material for Future Neohumans, Not Lived Experience
ZeroStateReflex · x · 2026-07-25
The author argues that our current thoughts about ASI will eventually survive only as archival material, read by future "neohumans" the way we read Plato—an object of fascination rather than lived experience. The post extends the idea with a second point: even a perfect simulation of the 1980s could never feel like actually having lived through that decade.
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