If we had a proper social safety net for all the displaced people, I'd be more open to it. But as things are now with rampant greed and a government for the corporations, fuck AI.

AGI doomers, yes.

I wouldn’t reject the label “AI Doomer”, myself. But I don’t have a strong position on utopia/dystopia when it comes to AGI.

Mostly because I think it’s so far away, that there’s a real good chance that we bet the farm on something much, much dumber than AGI.

Like a fancy autocomplete.

And hook it up to something unforgivably dangerous.

Like nukes.

This "timeline" stuff is weird. It seems like a cop-out that there is some alternative one we could shift to that is out of reach but we're just unlucky or something.

This isn't the worst or best timeline. It is just what is happening.

Their plan? Bring it about so that Rocko's Modern Basilisk can torture the unbelievers (as if hearing their inchoate speculation about what the-computer-that-can't-even-do-math-consistently will one day be able to do isn't already torment enough).

These dumbasses have reinvented premillennial dispensationalism.

For the rest of us, I guess Butlerian Jihad is always an option.

Prediction: Dude will have a book out about how to survive it in the next 12. Or he's aiming to receive a bonus from someone he knows who's already writing one.

Attempt to start a commune in the forest?

If you think about it, the majority of the world population never knew anything different than dystopia.

In a sense, the article is tailored to a certain public that has a reasonably good life now and is naturally afraid to lose it.

But the truth is the world is (and always has been) very shitty for the majority of people on the planet when you consider the distribution of wealth.

I think it’s important to think about who are the winners and losers in this whole thing. Are these execs so altruist that they’re worried about the average person or is this doom prediction something that serves their agenda?