The white pill on flag planting: 100k humans with AI agents will find good affordances
generativist · x · 2026-09-26
Following up on his critique of flag-planting packages, the author offers a white-pill take: 100,000 humans armed with AI agents competitively exploring a new affordance will plausibly find good uses for it — and you can't understand something you don't grow yourself. He's not sure flag planting is inherently bad.
Related event: AI Community's "Flag Planting" Culture Draws Criticism — and a White Pill(2 posts)→
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