keccers
@keccers.eth
IF we assume this is true (big if, but this is the future being pushed on us so) WHY would anyone want to bring kids into this world today, to essentially doom them into being addicts unless they win the lottery Sick stuff https://x.com/goodalexander/status/1948366346338644349?s=46
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Tom Beck
@tombeck.eth
I'll weigh in since I have two small children. 1. The debt crisis is a problem, yes, and American "prosperity" over the last 3 decades is largely illusory. Solution is to remove debt from your life and ensure your children don't use it. Pay for things with cash. Hold assets. etc. 2. AGI is not about to happen because AGI is a poorly-defined conceptual phantom. Much of the doom of this argument rests here, and it's an incredibly shaky one. What if AI only ever is ... exactly what it looks like now? Generative outputs trained on massive datasets. AI future is a bunch of SaaS companies plugging agents into work streams. Hardly an apocalypse scenario. Instead, it might make us all more productive! (and therefore help alleviate any incoming debt crises). 2a. Furthermore, most of this doomer scenario relies on an elite class monopolizing AI use. But that would skew against the trend of most technologies, which tends to do the opposite: hit mass adoption and then get used to topple existing elites.
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keccers
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The issue is isn’t so much that I believe this, but that this seems to be the default narrative. No one genuinely believes the future is good
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Tom Beck
@tombeck.eth
For sure. But I think, digging one level deeper, we believe the future is uncertain. And our brains hate uncertainty, so this gets characterized as bad. A strong opinion, loosely held is that this temperament is less a reflection on the specifics of our time and more general to human perception (you see it repeated throughout history; we often seem to believe we are living in the worst times, the end times even; it has not yet been true).
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