tszzl: Don't be an uncomprehending audience clapping at the AI magic show
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-07
Prominent AI commentator tszzl urges people not to reduce themselves to an audience at a magic show, uncomprehendingly clapping as machine intelligence creates astounding knowledge. "All of this is for us, to be understood by us, to sate our own curiosities. It's all really happening." Quoting himself: "we are breathing rarefied air."
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