Getting Gooier: How AI Is Reshaping Human Nature (opens in new tab)

This post is the result of my back and forth interaction with Claude Sonnet 4.6 that has yielded the following summary of Venkatesh Rao's recent essay, , followed by some perspectives that Rao does not address on Friston's active inference framework and the physiology of agency:Venkatesh Rao's recent essay "Getting Gooier" makes a point worth sitting with: most AI commentary obsesses over how the world will change, while quietly assuming that humans stay essentially the same — just reshuffled...