AI makes intelligence's materiality visible: reasoning runs on chips, memory and energy
demian_ai · x · 2026-09-23
The quoted post argues intelligence is often discussed as immaterial, but AI shows the opposite: reasoning requires chips, memory, energy and cooling. Compute doesn't diminish human thought — it gives far more people the ability to test, build and discover at a scale once reserved for a few.
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