Zach Weiner: AI will force us to confront that most human behavior is status-seeking
clarejtbirch · x · 2026-10-09
Quoting cartoonist Zach Weiner: one hard thing AI will do is force people to examine why humans do things — most of what we do, including many beautiful things, is ultimately a form of status-seeking.
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