Re:We're All AI Agents
by mrpound on Saturday July 19, 2025 @09:45AM
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What a bunch of facile garbage. For one thing, this idea that loss isn't really about the person who died...it's about YOU is insulting. Oh, they were no longer required for YOUR "task" so the system culled and "reassigned" them. The rest is just a series of weak surface level mappings from the infinitely complex domain of human existence into some HTTP status codes and ridiculous parallels to LLM interactions (which itself is a mere subset of the domain of AI).
The worst part isn't the anthropomorphizing of AI, it's the reduction of human agency and experience into a series of passive interactions within a constrained domain that forces you to reorient every thought and action toward this stupid extended metaphor.
The crash is going to be spectacular and it will be like a worse version of 1999.
The worst part isn't the anthropomorphizing of AI, it's the reduction of human agency and experience into a series of passive interactions within a constrained domain that forces you to reorient every thought and action toward this stupid extended metaphor.