"Some People Aren't Fully Conscious": A Provocative Take on NPC Discourse
generativist · x · 2026-10-22
The author says that while NPC memes are usually wrong and distasteful, he believes that—just as some people have no internal monologue and can't visualize apples—there may be people who aren't fully conscious, or who flicker in and out of consciousness.
More from AGI Musings
- 36 preprints in 3 months: BootLoops AI harness drives cross-field science — DeryaTR_ · 2026-10-22
- qntm's 'Lena': the sci-fi story of the first executable human brain snapshot — louisvarge · 2026-10-22
- In the AI age, taste beats function: competition shifts up the stack — vaibhavbetter · 2026-10-22
- ChapterPal solo dev: AI builds any feature in 15-30 min, growth is the real bottleneck — burkov · 2026-10-22
- Insider View: Why Chinese Hospitals Are Adopting AI Far Faster Than the West — 96Stats · 2026-10-22
- Researchers urge focus on cyber risk, not nanobot doomsday, as AI's real danger — nlarusstone · 2026-10-22