Most AI Foomers & Doomers Are Full of Shit
If all-powerful entities existed, wouldn’t you act on it?
PhD-level chatbots in about a year. Why bother with school?
AGI in 3–5 years? Screw the mortgage.
STDs or tarry lungs are the least of our problems if we’re all dead anyway.
Aella might actually be crazy enough to follow through:
But 99% of the pundit class will pivot to ‘AI bubble over, DUH’ on a dime.
They’re still maxing out their 401(k)s. Even though they ‘know’ abstract mental labor will be worth $0 by 2026.
This cognitive dissonance is so common, Taleb built a whole personality around calling it out.
Maybe the truly knowledgeable are too busy shooting fentanyl in the Seychelles. All I know is, as a programmer, I’m better positioned for the AI apocalypse than most white-collar workers. Bring it.
