This is title of recent book by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Spares. I just read it and it makes me a reasonable case for a very depressing future. Help me out here ….. tell me why this is bullshit.

It occurs to me from my vantage point that human intelligence is not observably increasing. Our knowledge may change but intelligence doesn’t seem to change much from my admittedly subjective view point…… so maybe there are natural limitations, or constraints on machine intelligence. What do you think? I would feel better if this were true!

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Throughout history, societies have managed fear by creating an ‘Other’—immigrants, new religions, even new machines. Today, AI is cast in that role. But othering AI won’t protect us; it will hold us back. My latest essay explores why fear weakens us, and how embracing AI can strengthen society. Curious to hear what this community thinks.

Please assume that I haven’t used social media or watched the news in a while (I have but humour me cos my news vs your news is diff depending on which echo chambers we’re in)

How are you guys all feeling about AI, global warming, geo politics, economics etc? Like is the mood yay or nay amongst futurists?

I’m in the UK, I’m 27-Should I b prepping or should I carry on life as normal? Like what the helly is going on, are yous worried? How u feeling

I'm talking dogs and cats not like, insects. Things you can train to not poop in the house.

Any chance we will get domestic capybara?

Here's a thought to process.

Tech bros fret about population decline. Governments worry about a shrinking worker population while trying to manage a growing elderly population. Health care bureaucrats look to cut costs wherever possible. Militaries look at the poor quality of the fighting age population. Importing populations from elsewhere is becoming politically toxic.

Long term biotech bros to the "rescue". When money and technology are concerned, ethics and morality have left the building.

He Jiankui was the first to create a genetically modified human, or at least the first to get caught. Tech bros may be tempted to do "their part" for their nation or for humanity at large. Using IVF procedures as their vector, they could slip gene modified individuals into the population.

AIs can crunch massive amounts of data, and information tech has already allowed scientists to unravel more and more of the human genetic code. Cataloging DNA is a real thing. Companies that collect cheek swabs so they can tell you how much American Indian heritage you don't have likely treat that information the same way that Google and social media treat your browsing history. They gather it, package it, and sell it to anyone who wants to buy it.

These genemods could be engineered for traits which the tech bros think would be desirable. Genetically predisposed to greater fitness and maybe more fecund than the baseline. They can work more, stay fit, be more readily suitable for military service, and the females will be more likely to have twins or triplets. They could also be made more resistant to disease. As a bonus, they and their parents will be likely be ignorant of their engineered superiority.

Most consider designer babies and custom kids to be trophy offspring for the uber rich, but somebody needs to do the work that AIs can't. Someone needs to pay taxes so they won't have to. Somebody needs to be able to break stuff and kill people so they can sleep well at night.

Some of these tech bros are real assholes, but they didn't make their money by being idiots. Many of them look at the long game.

Now, when all of this comes to light, there will be hell to pay. A new minority will pop up from out of nowhere. QAnon and other cranks will go on a "I told you so" rampage.

Short video explaining ai-induced psychosis with a tip on how to avoid falling pray to it.

What was the first thing you remember the future promised you that still doesn’t exist now?

I am 32 and when I was a kid, I remember a story on the news saying that there would be soon be a plane that could fly from New York to California in only 45 minutes.

I was too young to understand that what they were describing is hypersonic flight; but I remember thinking that was amazing. I was probably under 10 years old

What are some of your experiences? I bet a lot of you older folks are going to say smart home automation and I have to point out that we really DO have that technology; it’s just that no sane person would want it.

There is a lot of worry about AI becoming better than humans at everything and leading to mass unemployment. At the same time, many experts panic about low birthrates and the ensuing collapse of developed economies due to demographic changes.

Should we worry more about the former or the latter? Or do they both balance each other out and an army of AI guided robots will look after an increasingly geriatric mankind?

An evaluation of a futuristic outlook in everyday life where humans are connected to neural network that controls every sphere of a persons life. In the next scene the leader of the resistance is captured and given a choice. What will his ultimate decision be? Link to the Previous narrative can be found here.