OpenAI researcher pushes back hard on the "most people are NPCs" take
jachiam0 · x · 2026-11-02
Responding to a claim that fewer than 500M people truly understand self-agency while everyone else is a "derivative of a narrative," OpenAI researcher jachiam0 emphatically rejects the framing: everyone is living a real life, no one is an NPC, and treating the will to power as a prerequisite for realness is "a kind of madness."
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