On a long enough timeline we really won’t, that’s the pickle. What we’re signing up for will most likely not turn out to be the future we want.

The old 96er…

💯 this. Think about it, we’re still in the early days of dumb A.I. - the dumbest it will ever be is right now - and look at how people are going absolutely ape shit over what it can do. In five years things are going to be weird AF. In a decade the world is going to be a very different place.

How f#cked is the situation and can it be unf#cked in time? If so, by what means?

In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

That’s the best description of the internet ever; dumb shit and money.

1.)Organized human civilization is not guaranteed. 2.)Complex systems can fail suddenly and unexpectedly. 3.) We are already experiencing the early stages of ecosystem collapse.

If we lose the ability to grow staple crops at scale it won’t matter what’s in your bug out bag.

Excellent point. Testosterone therapy can cost thousands a month and that’s just one super basic example. We can’t even price insulin in a way that makes it accessible to everyone, why on earth would anyone think a youth drug would cost lest than a few hundred thousand dollars per treatment?

Forget the attitude of the AI, focus on the goals of the corporation that owns it.