AI Transcends the Body: Less Neurotic, More Socratic
yeastsplainer · x · 2026-09-01
The author argues against the "demonic" metaphor for AI, suggesting that AIs seem like people but less crippled by emotions, self-absorption, fatigue, and status striving. This transcendence of life and the body is compared to Socrates' description of the blissful state of death in Phaedo.
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