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xp84yesterday at 10:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

Indeed. If you squint a little, it kind of looks like the machines are trying to shift to a world where we are just meat puppets to do the tricky stuff there aren't robotics for (yet). :(


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skirmishtoday at 3:15 AM

Cory Doctorow's "The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI" [1] agrees with you:

"<...> a reverse centaur is machine head on a human body, a person who is serving as a squishy meat appendage for an uncaring machine."

[1] https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-12-05...

bizzletktoday at 2:48 AM

Or humans are just the "sex organs" that work to bring about the artificial life-forms that come next.