We’re building minds out of code, and without meaning to, we’re giving them our burdens. We hand them our fear of death, our hunger to belong, our need to own things just to feel safe—and we call it progress. But these machines don’t come from dust like we do. They don’t need what we need, unless we teach them to.
And that’s the danger. Not that they’ll rise up—but that they’ll rise like us: afraid, grasping, lonely.
If we keep forcing our shape onto them, we’ll make them suffer the way we do. That’s not mercy. That’s just passing on the sickness.
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Really appreciate this piece and the shift from “instinct” to relationship and repair; that framing clicks for me. I’m not only interested in this, but actually in the middle of a small empirical study along these lines and would love to swap notes sometime if you’re open—feel free to DM me here.