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I agree that this really could signal a massive shift in our society. But I’m also seeing people conflate humanity with jobs and productivity. And while I don’t have evidence for it, this feels to me like a rather North American proclivity.

Yes knowledge worker jobs may significantly suffer, but that is far from being ‘humanity’.

It seems to me that professions that involve interacting with the real world could go largely untouched (dentists, factory workers, delivery people, drivers, anyone working with nature).

Of course, feel free to hit me up with your counter-arguments!

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theres too much empty space in your comment. do you believe that AGI is even possible? do you believe its possible in the next 10 years or not for another 1000?

people talk about whether or not AGI will come in the next five years. that doesnt matter at all. what matters is whether or not there is a chance that it will happen. it is clear that if AGI arrives soon and if it damages society, future generations will look back on us and say that we were unbelievably stupid for overlooking such blatant and obvious warning signs. if it could be determined that AGI is something that should be avoided at all costs, an it can, then there is no reasonable course of action other than halt the progress of AI as much and quickly as possible. and to make an attempt to do so even if success is not guaranteed.

ill just go through it as quickly as possible. the emergence of AGI would be highly detrimental to human society because it would create severe economic shocks, it would advance science and technology quickly enough to create the most severe power vacuum in the history of the world and render the very concept of a country geopolitically untenable. it would transform the world into something totally unrecognizable and into a place where human industry is not just redundant but cosmically irrelevant. we will become a transient species, wiped out because we posed the slightest inconvenience to the new machine meta-organisms. like a species of plant wiped out because of a chemical byproduct of some insignificant industrial process. a nightmare.

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