Humans and machines both seek power — one superficial, the other real joules
yunta_tsai · x · 2026-11-07
AI commentator yuntatsai offers a pithy take: both humans and machines are power-seeking, but human power is superficial while machine power is measured in real joules — a nod to ongoing debates about power-seeking tendencies in frontier AI and the compute race behind it.
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