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> when they might lose their jobs and comfort levels?

Everyone has always worried about this for every major technology throughout history

IMO AGI will dramatically increase comfort levels, lower your chance of dying, death, disease, etc.



Again, sure, but it doesn’t matter to an average person. That’s too much focus on the hypothetical future. People care about the current times. In the short term it will suck for a good chunk of people, and whether the sacrifice is worth it will depend on who you are.

People aren’t really on uproar yet, because implementations haven’t affected the job market of the masses. Afterwards? Tume will show.


Yes, people tend to focus on current times. It's an incredibly shortsighted mentality that selfishly puts oneself over tens of billions of future lives being improved. https://pessimistsarchive.org


Do you have any dependents, like parents or kids, by any chance? Imagine not being able to provide for them. Think how’d you feel in such circumstances.

Like in general I totally agree with you, but I also understand why a person would care about their loved ones and themselves first.


Yes, I have dependents, and them not dying is far more important to me than me being the one providing for them.


Eventually you draw the black ball, it is inevitable.


We've almost wiped ourselves out in a nuclear war in the 70ies. If that would have happened, would it have been worth it? Probably not.

Beyond immediate increase in inequality, which I agree could be worth it in the long run if this was the only problem, we're playing a dangerous game.

The smartest and most capable species on the planet that dominates it for exactly this reason, is creating something even smarter and more capable than itself in the hope it'd help make its life easier.

Hmm.




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