How Reading Rilke's "Open" Shaped One AI Practitioner's Tech Thinking
fkasummer · x · 2026-10-23
The author reflects on how reading Rilke in their late teens influenced their frontier technology work, quoting Rilke's concept of the "Open": animals exist in the world through their degree of consciousness, while humans stand before the world, observing and judging it due to a peculiar turn in consciousness. The author suggests this philosophical lens shaped how they think about technology and consciousness.
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