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points by anfogoat 20 hours ago | 0 comments
Bleak? Assuming AI will be what this text assumes it will, there is no chance of most people continuing to live more or less normal lives where they'd be at a place where they would ever get to worry about something like this.

It's assuming there will be UBI schemes and benevolent billionaires. It's not bleak, it's fantastical.

[–] snek_case 30 minutes ago
Yeah. Dario Amodei was publicly saying, with a shit-eating grin, that all white-collar jobs would be gone in 6-12 months. His prediction didn't yet come true, but this is the CEO of one a suposed "public benefit corporation". These people literally want to speedrun the dystopia. Destroy a ton of jobs while making more profit, with not even a semblance of a plan for what to do with all of these jobless people or how to help them afford food and housing.

The short to medium term future seems more likely to look like a bunch of hikikomori living in miserable conditions and doomscrolling online.

[–] simongray 20 hours ago
The breakdown of social relations is pretty bleak.
[–] za_creature 9 hours ago
Fantastical as in "it's pure fantasy"