The biological niche of humanity is that we can think. And we've had a monopoly on it. Engineering away your niche is really fucking stupid. Soon we'll face one of three outcomes. Either we become only as good as any other animal, and not worth pouring resources into. Or we become pests that now do nothing for the corporate power centers which now have exactly zero humans in them. Or our unique ability to think / create better neurons still differentiates us from other animals and we become a kind of brain cattle. Our brains get scooped out and put into wet server farms.
All of them are low probability because they can't sum above 1. But the odds of things working out for us are pretty slim.
We could raise interest rates and pop the AI bubble in record time. Cats mostly out of the bag, but if we shut down the funding, we might be able to do some good with what we have so far.
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Well that's true.
The biological niche of humanity is that we can think. And we've had a monopoly on it. Engineering away your niche is really fucking stupid. Soon we'll face one of three outcomes. Either we become only as good as any other animal, and not worth pouring resources into. Or we become pests that now do nothing for the corporate power centers which now have exactly zero humans in them. Or our unique ability to think / create better neurons still differentiates us from other animals and we become a kind of brain cattle. Our brains get scooped out and put into wet server farms.
All of them are low probability because they can't sum above 1. But the odds of things working out for us are pretty slim.
We could raise interest rates and pop the AI bubble in record time. Cats mostly out of the bag, but if we shut down the funding, we might be able to do some good with what we have so far.