Comment by ChaseRensberger

10 hours ago

> Education and intellectual work isn't really worth anything if AI succeeds

I feel like this is a crazy take. Smart (and motivated) people are better at adapting to a different world than not smart people.

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nearbuy  3 hours ago

If AI takes off, there will be nothing to adapt to. Anything a smart (and motivated) person can do, a smart (and motivated) AI will be able to do faster and cheaper. We might end up permanently retired and just spend our time entertaining ourselves.

  • ChaseRensberger  1 hour ago

    id still argue that (human) education and intelligence is not worthless even in this world. learning is fun, a joke is often funnier the more clever it is, movies are better when they are well thought out, reading is more interesting when you can acknowledge the parallels to things youve read before, etc...

    still, i think getting ASI to distribute itself properly is going to be harder than people give credit. there is still a lot of problems to solve. i dont think im going to wake up one day and we are shuttling people to jupiter and back.

  • tarsierscripter  1 hour ago

    We might end up permanently retired and just spend our time entertaining ourselves.

    More likely we'll be permanently starving and fighting over the scraps in a dystopian world.

    If AI doesn't take off but instead remains "spiky", then being smart and adaptable will be an advantage for those trying to stay ahead of AI.

0c3ca83  8 hours ago

If we have working AI, I'll be able to ask it what I should do to adapt.

  • ChaseRensberger  8 hours ago

    i think this is a bit naive unless youre letting a neural interface run opus 12.6 and shutting down the rest of your brain to redirect energy towards local compute.

    smart people are better at taking action based on directive than not smart people (im assuming).