AI Is Here to Stay Debate

Artists, mathematicians, intellectuals, but especially childless careerists who've poured their entire souls into their work and material achievements are about to experience a level of ego death previously reserved for religious mystics and psychedelic casualties. I am so fucking SICK of seeing the phrase “AI is here to stay”. We are not powerless in the face of this. We can simply reject it. We do not HAVE to accept this.

A screenshot of an X post argues that artists, mathematicians, intellectuals, and especially childless careerists will experience an “ego death” as AI transforms the value of their work. The quoted reply angrily rejects the idea that AI is inevitable, jokingly framing resistance to AI as a dramatic existential struggle. It is shared as a reaction to anxiety, resentment, or denial about AI replacing creative and intellectual labor.

• @gentoomemes / 22251 2026-10-17