> This type of thing used to scare me a lot more. But after the events of the last few years, the latest IPCC climate report, and the fact that AI has fallen on

> This type of thing used to scare me a lot more. But after the events of the last few years, the latest IPCC climate report, and the fact that AI has fallen on its face repeatedly despite expectations, I'm more convinced that we'll destroy ourselves before AI has the chance to take us out. I don't think we'll destroy ourselves, but I am starting to think it might be a good thing for humanity of technological civilization falls on its face. I think fears about AGI are overhyped by people who've read way too much sci-fi, but there are a lot of technologies out there or that are being developed that seem like they could be setting us up for a kind of stable totalitarianism that uses automation to implement much tighter control than was ever possible before. The people in the 90s who hyped computers as tools of liberation will probably be proven to be very badly wrong. Analog technologies were better, since they're more difficult and costly to monitor. IMHO, a real samizdat is impossible when everything's connected to the internet. And the internet has proven to be far easier to block and control than shortwave radio.