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1. jackmott42 · 1791065846 · focus · HN ↗

   I also have near zero concerns about that, but I worry that we will wipe ourselves out by social and economic chaos caused by AI.

   So I'd just ask everyone, don't get too greedy. Its better to be powerful in a world where people can live good lives than lord over a barren wasteland.

   1. tarkin2 · 1791070317 · focus · HN ↗

      > I also have near zero concerns about that, but I worry that we will wipe ourselves out by social and economic chaos caused by AI.

      Since people exercise their skills and brains less, deferring to AI, AI will only reduce our IQ.

      Since people will spend more time talking to their AI bot than fostering social skills, AI will only reduce our social intelligence.

      A dumber, less social world, is far less likely to be a successful world, even if the tools available are unprecedented.

      1. oxag3n · 1791084124 · focus · HN ↗

         > A dumber, less social world, is far less likely to be a successful world, even if the tools available are unprecedented.

         En masse such worlds had successes in the past - renaissance, industrial revolution.

         It's something else what I can't describe but it's the zeitgeist that was different when world recorded new successes. Look at CS revolution that led to PC and web of nineties and noughties, they didn't think about the result product , or how to steer thousand engineers to build something - amazing things were born in a very small teams, many times authored by a single person, who was deeply invested into the field and knew what he was doing.

         1. tarkin2 · 1791092046 · focus · HN ↗

            In no era has the dominant technology encouraging the youth outsource their thinking to a magical box.

            Our intelligence has been decrease since the 1970s via the reverse flynn affect. This is only going to exacerbate that decline.

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