'It's a python loop': sci-fi writers' AI takes mocked as mechanistic cope
pwlot · x · 2026-09-16
Benjamin Bratton ridicules the "it's a python loop" dismissal of AI, likening it to calling the human brain "goopy electrified biomass." Reposting, pwlot adds that quite a few sci-fi writers hold shockingly ill-informed and unimaginative takes on AI, arguing mechanistic reduction ("Bach is just soundwaves") is a massive cope.
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