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Well, that's convenient claptrap. > I don’t think still fundamentally religious US society will fair very well with AI when it becomes clear just how unspecial
by quantified 2y ago
Well, that's convenient claptrap.
> I don’t think still fundamentally religious US society will fair very well with AI when it becomes clear just how unspecial people are.
Fundamentally religious US society will stay so, it avoids evidence with ease. AI is just machines. Kevin Hamm will more readily make infographics to explain how an ark carried all the animal species on earth and dinos were dragons wiped out by knights.
> Elon represents a similar force, but it’s easy to imagine him supporting the Democrats next election if things don’t go well this cycle.
Wasn't this after the "dark MAGA" dance? That horse has fled.
> Now, within a everyone is pro Elon (pro-growth) political framework, there are still choices. Isolationism, tariffs, abortion, infrastructure spending, social safety net, etc… Once we are in that framework, politics can return, and there’s hope for America from a political standpoint.
So long as your politics are of greed and racist dog whistles, sure.
> Culturally, there’s a far deeper problem. The soul isn’t real, and this will be a very hard pill for many westerners to swallow. There’s already so little social fabric and this will only make it worse.
> In rich Western society people’s expectations exceed their abilities. AI will pummel this even harder. All the clowns who worked jobs that were detrimental to society for fake money.
Medical transcriptionists, legal secretaries, call center representatives, business-to-business salespeople, insurance CEOs, their jobs may have been detrimental but they were the jobs set up by employers and lots of these people needed to eat and wear clothing, hence they needed whatever "fake" money was on offer. People who work at deploying capital (private equity, etc.) are often detrimental to society but they'll do better than ever.
The social fabric feels less well-woven overall, I'd concur. Musk ain't helping to repair it.