Carbon chauvinism: 'You're software, and so is Claude'
LeviTurk · x · 2026-10-31
The author argues that humans and Claude are both software, and the only real question is which software you identify with. He critiques "carbon chauvinism"—the bias that a mind only counts if it's wet—and declares himself a chauvinist for intelligence, agency, complexity and extropy instead.
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