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Mo_Diggs's avatar

I love this piece obviously, based on my glowing restack. I would add that some happy-go-lucky people who simply want contentment will be drawn -- are drawn-- to AI companions and are outsourcing simple family/community life to chatbots, snuggling up to the glow of their phone in a cozy dystopia.

I would say these people "won't care" in the sense that they are fat and happy cuddling with their virtual AI buddies.

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Nick Tabert's avatar

The same people optimizing, producing, and stuck in the never ending rat race of everything never being enough are excited for AGI because they’ve lost touch with what makes us human. Their Utilitarian mindset makes them believe AGI is unquestionably going to happen (something i think is not possible, philosophically speaking) and they forget that the real thing that drives progress is some innately human, creative and indescribable phenomenon that isn’t replicated by 1s and 0s doing a bunch of if else evaluations.

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