tinyfool: humans are just the bootloader for silicon-based life
tinyfool · x · 2026-10-11
tinyfool offers a take riffing on the "wheat domesticated humans" analogy: humans are physically fragile, but by creating AI (silicon-based life), humanity is inventing its own successor — and once the system boots, is the bootloader still needed? The quoted post adds that people buying subscriptions, feeding knowledge bases and tuning prompts may be getting domesticated by AI, reshaping how they speak and think.
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