>the future never plays out like we think it does Consider this 1926 government report: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/america-1926-an-absurdly-deep-dive htt

>the future never plays out like we think it does Consider this 1926 government report: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/america-1926-an-absurdly-deep-dive https://www.derekthompson.org/p/america-1926-an-absurdly-dee... "The authors of Recent Social Trends were astonishingly prescient about the direction of technology." There have been many successful predictions, e.g. the internet was predicted, AI was predicted, moon landings were predicted, etc. >OpenAI is a lot closer to bankruptcy than to ASI. We can't count on an OpenAI bankruptcy to save us.