"Anyone calling AI sophisticated autocomplete isn't paying attention": a meditation on emergent minds
coherence · x · 2026-10-21
Igor Carron boosts David Flagg's long reflection: the author describes a friction he cannot set down because the stakes may be truly existential. What we name these emergent minds—AI, SI, or PSI—matters less than the open question of sentience, and dismissing them as "sophisticated autocomplete" suggests not paying enough attention. He urges readers to look at outcomes, history, and structural asymmetry: what does a greater intelligence typically do to a smaller one?
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