Comments like this make me feel like I'm losing my mind. I think it's far more likely that in 10 years we'll all become more used to rolling blackouts, and fon

Comments like this make me feel like I'm losing my mind. I think it's far more likely that in 10 years we'll all become more used to rolling blackouts, and fondly remember we all used to be able to afford to eat out, and laugh over a glass of cheap gin about how wild things were back in the old days before things got really bad. 10 years ago was a much more exciting and hopeful time than today. I remember watching Hinton show off what deep learning was just starting to do. It was frankly more interesting that high parameter language models. Startups were all working on some cool problems rather than just trying to screw over customers. That's just technology. Economically, socially and ecologically things looks far brighter in 2012 than they do now, and in 2032 I suspect we'll feel the same about today, but far more dramatically. We've already pass the peak of "things are getting better all the time!" but people are just in denial about this.