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Yeah, I've been a technophile all my life but this is probably the first development I don't see as a net positive. All the use cases I've seen so far lead to a shittier world, and we probably won't even get sci-fi AGI in return.

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Personally I think there’s a distinction to be made between generative AI and that of say, self driving cars. I’d definitely consider the latter a net positive for safety.

Massive net negative for anyone who can't afford a new car once those become required. Without expansion of public transportation basically everywhere, self-driving cars are a money making method that will lock out millions of people, not a real solution.

Agree that better public transport is the ideal solution. When do you see self driving cars becoming required?

Time sharing of self-driving cars will be very inexpensive. Biggest cost now is drivers.

Think about how little time utilization most cars get.

That blurs the line between public and private, in a good way.

In tandem to self-driving, electric car hardware keeps getting cheaper. Projected lifetimes keep getting longer. So the economics are going to trend better for quite a while.

It's like how William Gibson moved away from cyberpunk, because all the shitty aspects of cyberpunk are in today's world with few, if any, of the cool bits.

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