Chinese essay: in the AI era, individuality becomes extractable data representation
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-22
A Chinese essay contrasts deterministic narratives (smooth downhill roads) with uncertain paths requiring trailblazing, arguing that rapid model iteration turns individuality into data representations that can be copied, reverse-engineered, trained on, and monetized. Ordinary people feel bound by gradient descent — a stark shift from the rebellious startup ethos of the past 40 years. It ends with a call to pay the extra cost of freedom and keep creating, however small the output.
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