Builders Quietly Drop Human Centrality // AIDRAN

Scott Alexander's essay did not start a debate — it named one that was already over in the communities most actively shaping AI development. The shift is not that people have resolved the hard problem of consciousness. It is that they have stopped needing to. Practitioners are building toward an assumed answer, and the philosophical objections that might have redirected that work are arriving too late to the spaces where the building happens.

The Question Scott Alexander Asked About Humanity's Future Has Already Been Answered

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