Good strife: reading AI-era competition through the Greek ideal of agon
voooooogel · x · 2026-09-25
Responding to @zetalyrae, voooooogel frames the debate as an agon-style "good strife": competition as the mechanism that puts society in order and pushes people to be better. Drawing on the pre-Napoleonic European order and the upheaval of the French Revolution's levee en masse, the author explores how eras redefine paths to glory—and how that lens helps think about competition and talent in the AI age.
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