Daniel Faggella: 'Pedestal cope' — humans cling to assumed superiority over AGI
danfaggella · x · 2026-10-11
AI analyst Daniel Faggella argues in a spat with Andrew Curran that "pedestal cope" drives most experts: any trend away from eternal human supreme agency feels like a massive ego threat and gets rejected, whether in maths or elsewhere. Full argument is laid out in his blog essay.
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