AI Doom Was Never Terminator, Just People Outsourcing Thinking to Robots
eigenhector · x · 2026-09-12
The core post of the thread: everyone assumed AI doom would look like Terminator, but actually it's people slowly outsourcing their thinking and sex lives to robots. The author laments that such a 'boring and very slow' sci-fi doom story hasn't been covered by any novel or movie — 'WALL-E but mental?'
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