'Meat proxy era' banter: humans mocked as placeholders in the loop
max_paperclips · x · 2026-10-10
andrewqu jokes about the "meat proxy era" — enjoy being in the loop while it lasts, since we'll soon reminisce about when humans were still part of it. maxpaperclips fires back: "strong words for a wrapper company." A quintessential AI-circle exchange on automation displacing humans and the value (or lack thereof) of wrapper companies.
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