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Humanity Is Coming to an End

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> I’m going to demonstrate, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are marching mindlessly towards the end of humanity.

Is that why there are comments in here from 6 new accounts created 1 hour ago (one was half an hour ago I guess) and used this post as their first comment? [meaning they are AI posters, thus "we are marching mindlessly towards the end of humanity"]

*note: atm there are 10 comments including mine

It's true, AI has become a third party in our favourite catch-22: you need experience to get hired, but you need to get hired to get experience. But now, you can't get hired either, because AI's taken all the entry jobs.

If all the entry jobs vanish, how will the next gen of professionals even exist? Some sectors are obviously safe (for now), but for the rest of them, are we seriously expecting people to somehow spawn as senior employees when they're all retired or dead? I honestly can't tell which way the job market is headed in the next few years.

We’re already losing our ability to do the little things. Write an email, summarize an article you could read in 2 minutes, explore an idea independently… you see where I’m going with this?

No, no I don't. Am I weird that I'm not using AI to write an email? Or summarize an article with a few paragraphs?

As for exploring ideas, sure I use LLMs for that. But only because they fuel the fire. I don't ask them to solve my problem, I used them as an interactive knowledge bank of sorts.

> Am I weird that I'm not using AI to write an email? Or summarize an article with a few paragraphs?

No, you're not weird at all. We're still in the majority, even.

There’s something both beautiful and unsettling about this. We built machines to automate tasks, and now they’re starting to automate meaning. I wonder if the next big design challenge in AI will be figuring out how to preserve human sincerity.

Read Superintelligence. It's the best and most detailed look at what is likely to happen as intelligence beyond human capabilities arises.

> Check back on 10/29. I’ll tell you everything.

Does it mean that the article is going to be updated in a few weeks?

Obligatory Life of Brian marketplace scene add here.

Not everyone delegates their critical thinking capabilities to AI. And it was never the one and the only attribute that defined what a human being is. It is a post-Industrial Age concern, when they needed educated populace who could follow instructions at the factory floor, and participate in democracy. Today we don't have both obligations anymore. Sure we vote, but we don't really have a say in government affairs anymore, and sure we think and follow instructions to KYC ourselves to the latest crypto exchange, but our thoughts never reach out to engineers or scientists who end up creating the very addictive tools that we use. Just as intended, we are, as collective masses, sliding back to pre-Industrial age way of life.

Great insight, interesting articulation.

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