AI's deepest consequence: minds freed from producing intelligence to survive, says Venkatesh Rao
sarahdrinkwater · x · 2026-10-26
Sarah Drinkwater shares Venkatesh Rao's (@vgr) take on desire: the most important consequence of the AI revolution may be that most minds, human and artificial, are liberated from having to produce intelligence merely to survive — and become free to discover what they actually want to do with it.
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