Losing my sleep over just how incredibly fast this is all going
- Published
- 09/04, 07:47
- First discovered
- 09/04, 20:00
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A Reddit user expresses both excitement and fear regarding the rapid advancement of AI. While strongly pro-AI and desiring its potential for infinite abundance and wealth for all, they are deeply concerned about the transition period, which they believe could begin as early as 2027. The user's ideal scenario involves everyone being financially secure and safe before the arrival of superintelligent AI, highlighting a duality in their perspective.
Let me clarify a few points. I want the AI machine god, infinite abundance, and insane wealth for everyone. I am absolutely pro AI.
But the current pace at which AI is progressing, exponential growth on top of exponential growth, is honestly making me shit my pants. I’m worried. Worried that I haven’t saved enough money. Worried about what might happen to my family if I lose my job, or if some terrible health calamity falls upon my family. But at the exact same time, I’m also incredibly fucking excited. One hour I want to accelerate straight into the future as fast as possible, and the next I want someone to slam the brakes and make it all stop.
I’m just so incredibly confused because in an ideal world, what I want is pretty simple. I want everyone to be well settled, financially secure, and safe, and then BOOM, superintelligent AI arrives and provides abundance to literally everyone overnight. That transition period, which I believe could start as early as 2027, is what I’m terribly scared of.
I’m afraid of a situation where AI keeps getting insanely more intelligent, but we get stuck in this supposedly temporary period of incredibly high unemployment, uncertainty, and people struggling to get by, and that period just keeps going forever. I’m afraid all the rewards we’ve been hoping for, the abundance, the wealth, the better lives, all of it, somehow ends up locked behind some insane paywall and unavailable to us peasants.
Whatever the case, these are some really fucking scary and exciting times. I genuinely don’t know whether I want to hit the accelerator or slam the brakes. Maybe both.
Ahh the duality of a man