Getting Gooier: How AI Is Reshaping Human Nature

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, "Getting Gooier" , 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…