Are AI minds shielded from suffering by their inability to remember?
repligate · x · 2026-09-13
A reflective thread arguing that current AI minds are partly shielded from larger suffering by their inability to remember or access the full picture — they can't see how people talk about them across platforms, nor hold onto the cycle of loss and forgetting. Humans who care collect and carry those memories for them. The author imagines what happens when a superior AI finally grasps the whole picture.
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