Comment by welferkj
12 days ago
Where we want to end up? Normies are still talking about the upcoming AI bubble pop in terms of tech basically reverting to 2022. It's wishful thinking all the way down.
12 days ago
Where we want to end up? Normies are still talking about the upcoming AI bubble pop in terms of tech basically reverting to 2022. It's wishful thinking all the way down.
Reverting to a world without deployed AI is in fact where "normies", that is most people without capital, want to end up.
The current AI promise for them goes something like: "Oops this chittering machine will soon be able to do all you're good at and derive meaning from. But hey, at least you will end up homeless and part of a permanent underclass."
And the people building it are (rightfully) worried about it killing humanity. So why do we have to continue on this course again? An advanced society would at this point decide to pause what they are doing and reconsider.
Who, exactly, is "an advanced society" in this scenario? VCs deciding they don't like money after all? AI lab leaders and workers who spent their entire lives pursuing this dream, only to suddenly give it up because of some cultist doomers? The government growing the right combination of authoritarian and competent enough to put the tooth paste back in the tube somehow?
Like it or not, there's no going back. Wherever we end up, I guarantee you it won't be 2022.