this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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A Boring Dystopia
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In my youth, I used to be fascinated by the possibility of AI (through which I refer to AGI, felt this distinction necessary, and no, I refuse to call today's pseudo-brute-force models AI). I used to imagine them developing creativity and works of art, used to wonder what kind of experience an AI would deem book-worthy (I read too much sci-fi, sue me).
Everything that's happening nowadays feels like a fever dream distortion of my naïve musings.
In the 80s, I used to think that when I was an adult, we'd have hoverboards, and flying cars, and robot maids.
I'm so glad we don't have flying cars. Imagine 9/11 happens every week because some idiot was texting and driving.
I think there should be a rule that if we can go 5 years without a single person in the world crashing a car on the ground, then we can have flying cars.
People can't afford to keep cars running that stay on the ground.