I guess I could compress my response down to: what if all of a sudden there are things that can “use the tools” that are smarter than humans?
I haven’t read the linked MIT technology review article yet (lmk if I should to understand your point better), but the linked one at least seemed to say this “it’s always been net positive, it will this time too”. I think that’s a bad extrapolation - past revolutions are not analogous because every time in the past, Homo sapiens dominated the new tech in a lot of intellectual metrics. So we had a niche we could move to, earn money, and even be (much) better off overall. I think that niche will be extremely small in the short term. Celebrity (currently smaller) and manual labor (currently larger). And humans won’t outcompete in those categories forever either.
Do you disagree with any of this? Do you assume we will use the tools better than AI?
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