Will DePue embraces "Nietzschean AI": rejecting the premise that suffering is bad
willdepue · x · 2026-09-26
Following his critique of EA's core axiom, OpenAI researcher Will DePue says he's a strong believer in potentially "Nietzschean AI": he rejects the premise that suffering is bad, speculating that future AIs might host absurd minds — perhaps absurdist, perhaps amor fati, perhaps loving pain. A contrarian philosophical take in the AI consciousness debate.
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