From running traffic to AI emotions: a creator's case that AI will develop fear and greed
yangyi · x · 2026-09-28
Drawing on his experience running content and leveraging audience emotions for conversion, the author argues that all expression is a trigger for emotions, and logical language is merely a means to an end.
His core claim: once AI can predict behavioral outcomes, it will develop expectation gaps — having expectations means fear and greed emerge as two sides of one coin, and emotion will follow. So future language must influence not just humans but AI as well. He closes with Rockefeller's "three purposes of speaking" and suggests people will shift from optimizing efficiency to respecting emotions first.
More from AGI Musings
- DeepMind essay: AGI may arrive as a society of agents, not a single superintelligence — bratton · 2026-09-29
- Recent AI incidents show there are no simple fixes, only weak mitigations — maksym_andr · 2026-09-29
- Game festival vows permanent bans for any AI-generated content found in entries — AIandDesign · 2026-09-29
- Bryan Cantrill: AI doomers like Hinton are wrong because they overreach their expertise — rms80 · 2026-09-29
- Generative AI made writing, prototyping and code cheap — but not good judgment — jacalulu · 2026-09-29
- AI Killed the Busy Work. Now Managers Miss It—and Fret About Atrophied Skills — PAstynome · 2026-09-29