AI commoditizes intelligence, making beauty and charisma the new status symbols
jocarrasqueira · x · 2026-08-25
ClaraGold argues that SF spent 20 years making beauty look like the wrong status currency, but AI is commoditizing visible intelligence, making 'looking smart' cheap. When a status signal becomes cheap, people migrate to harder-to-manufacture signals: beauty, charisma, taste, social fluency. jocarrasqueira agrees.
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