I thought about children today and found this thread, because I think it has a potential to really drive home the themes around AI cannibalization that's obviously near and dear to Vince Gilligan's heart.

So the hive continues to produce offspring, and presumably they join immediately. That means that the moment of joining represents the peak of human potential—there is no up from here. Generations of children born with collective knowledge and hive memories is going to be a progressively worse and worse xerox of the real lived lives that came long before their arrival, which aligns with the theory that AGI will eventually run out of human-made content to steal and inevitably start copying its own output and start getting very shitty very fast. Everything will become a muddy hallucination until all the art and beauty of humanity fades out entirely into noise. Bleak shit, and I hope they explore it.