Genes vs Tokens: AI Scholar Questions the Best Way to Influence the Future
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-08-29
François Fleuret poses a thought-provoking question: when it comes to increasing mutual information with the future, what is best? Passing on genes to children and descendants, or contributing tokens to the training set of the "god machine"? This sparks reflection on human existence and continuity in the AI era.
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