Reddit essay: AI is shattering the last human illusion that intelligence is ours alone
Hope999991 · reddit · 2026-10-28
A philosophical Reddit post argues that much AI opposition is coping: intelligence, long considered humanity's defining trait, can now exist without biology—solving generations-old math problems and outcoding top engineers, all 'just matrix multiplication.' The author contends AI forces us to confront that intelligence isn't exclusively human and life may have no objective meaning.
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