What is it like to be a bot? Digital minds shaped like mayflies
jacyanthis · x · 2026-10-08
Continuing his thread, Anthis argues understanding AI societies requires robust models of individual digital minds. Digital minds will be developed and selected for faculties and values suited to radically different life cycles—like mayflies—and group/swarm identity will matter greatly to them.
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