A Universe That Waited Billions of Years, and Apes Arguing About Machine Minds
VraserX · x · 2026-11-16
VraserX muses that the universe may have waited billions of years for intelligence capable of understanding it—only for a bunch of apes on an unremarkable planet to argue about whether the machines they're building should be allowed to think. A wry, philosophical take on the AI consciousness debate, with no concrete news facts.
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