Comment by tristor

> I think there's another problem with AI doomerism, which is the belief that superhuman intelligence (even if such a thing could be defined and realised) results in godlike powers.

I agree with this. The main piece of evidence to support this is to just look at highly intelligent humans. Folks at the tail ends of the bell curve mostly don't end up with "godlike powers" or anything even approximating that, they are grinding away their life as white collar professionals working in jobs surrounded by far less intelligent peers. They may publish higher quality papers, write better software, or have better outcomes, but they're just working in the same jobs as everyone else. We have no political or economic will to build serious think tanks to work on societal-scale problems, and even if we did, nobody would listen to the outcome.

So let's assume ASI becomes a thing, what does it change?