Riding horses is not tedious and boring. Carving is not tedious and boring. Sailing is not tedious and boring. Cooking is not tedious and boring. Performing mus

Riding horses is not tedious and boring. Carving is not tedious and boring. Sailing is not tedious and boring. Cooking is not tedious and boring. Performing music is not tedious and boring. Yet machines have long ago replaced all of these things. It turns out that when you have a machine replace a tedious and boring thing, people still find ways to do it anyway. Less of them, perhaps, but the ones that do still do it seem to be quite innovative with their style and technique. And everybody else found other ways to use their time (or perhaps: be used for their time). You can worry yourself into believing that AI invites a whole new category of transcendence if you want, but that’s your imagination telling you that. There’s no science or history behind your worry. Just some gloomy inductive hypotheses that got seeded by mid-century scifi authors in a world that might be annihilated by a nuclear conflict any moment. Take a step back and see what comes rather than assuming you know. Trust that you’ll know if or when there’s something you need to do. You’ve only got a few decades to witness; it’s better when you stay in the present of them rather than in worked up anxieties. And geez, if you really want to dread something anyway, at least point yourself at one of that big scary things that are already looming like climate catastrophe, resurgent global conflict, the sunset of democracies, or capital centralization. If we make it to your AI fears coming true, you could say that’s a win!