Fitness and ferality may become luxury classifiers as AI trivializes intelligence
tedmitew · x · 2026-08-18
The author suggests that as AI reduces the scarcity of intelligence and assimilates the normie hivemind, physical fitness and a feral state will become luxury classifiers. The irony lies in the potential emergence of "AI-augmented Bronze Age ferals" as the future elite, combining primal traits with local inference capabilities.
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