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History has never had transformative AI. What is coming is unprecedented and has no historical parallel, certainly not once it is very advanced.

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Human emotions have never changed throughout history, the reaction will always be the same.

Technology simply changes the medium, but the end result remains the same. Transformative AI falls into the category of technology.

> Human emotions have never changed throughout history, the reaction will always be the same.

This will not necessarily true with advanced AI. In fact it most likely will not be true.

> Technology simply changes the medium, but the end result remains the same. Transformative AI falls into the category of technology.

(Advanced) AI is fundamentally different from every other technology.

I'd rather say genetically biological changes would change human emotions more so than AI. We do see some effects through social media but it's still the same base emotions being amplified. However, imagine wholly new emotions arising from genetic germ cell engineering.

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