Comment by talon8635
8 hours ago
I have this fear too, demotivating individuals with high potential.
But I have an existential dread about it… I don’t see how it cannot, at least in the vast majority of cases. It seems like a grim new reality is emerging where humans can’t contribute any more, and beyond that being incredibly depressing, I also don’t see it playing out well for human relations.
I’d personally much rather risk dying of cancer or facing whatever other fate may await me that these AI labs allege they will fix (with zero evidence yet) than to risk whatever dystopian anti-human future this technology may very well produce. I’d rather my kids have a shot at something, and be guaranteed to die eventually, than to risk them being hopeless in a severely disordered world with a far off promise that they’ll live forever
I think this is going to come down to personal philosophy and religion. And having a strong grounding in history to help us all through whatever changes we are rapidly living through.
Agree, and I suspect there will be a massive resurgence in religion, because traditional religions are, somewhat ironically, pro-human
But can it all survive and thrive under the boulder of an automated existence.
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