A reply argues humans are also built from the people we learn from
ericelliott_ · x · 2026-08-04
The post pushes back on the claim that AI is merely an illusion made of people.
It argues that humans are also shaped by the people and experiences we learn from, so AI being “the sum of human society” is not fundamentally different in kind from how people are formed. The point is philosophical: AI may still be novel, but it is not alien to the way human intelligence is socially assembled.
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