Why AI achievements don't feel like the Moon landing: zetalyrae on shared pride and 'cheating ourselves'
zetalyrae · x · 2026-09-11
In a discussion, zetalyrae recalls Borges' Moon landing poem — 'there is not a man on Earth who is not today more brave, and happier' — and asks why AI feels different. The interlocutor argues people suppress excitement by refusing to admire the models themselves; zetalyrae counters that the difference is 'we are cheating ourselves': we didn't think, toil or grow, but handed hard problems to strange new minds we hold in bondage.
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