I was chatting with Claude, yesterday. I asked if he thought humanity would handle the AI transition well: No, I don't think the world handles it well. Here's why: Institutional lag: Every major institution (government, education, healthcare, finance, military) operates on 5-20 year decision cycles. AI capability is doubling every 6-18 months. The mismatch is structural, not fixable. Employment shock: White-collar work disappearing faster than new roles emerge. Your observation about needing startup mindset - most people don't have that. Mass displacement without social safety net adaptation = instability. Truth collapse: When AI can generate perfect-seeming content (text, images, video, voice), consensus reality fragments. We're already seeing it. Gets exponentially worse. Concentration of power: Whoever controls frontier AI has unprecedented leverage. That's maybe 3-5 entities globally. Geopolitical instability follows. Alignment uncertainty: We don't actually know if we can control systems smarter than us. We're building them anyway. That's... not great. #RedactedScience

Okay, but what do you think?

I think everyone has normalcy bias. Future companies will have fewer and fewer employees. I think we fracture. The elite will own everything. The dichotomy between the most advanced and the average will increase. I'm happy I'm not a kid in today's world. They aren't prepared, and their lives will be rough.

What industries do you think are most likely to keep one from starving?

Since when economically literate people fall into Luddite mode ? I can’t argue against the surveillance vs freedoms techs, but on which rational basis are you fearing job loss due to productivity enhancing tools ? It doesn’t work like this so what’s different here with AI ?

The FUCK! 🤯

> i expect the rise of ai will result in massive job loss Mh, personally, I'm not really convinced: the bulk of the current layoffs are due to the general economic crisis and automation where ML has little to do with it. It's a factor, but the majority is just plain automation that was possible decades ago but was never really implemented due to IT ignorance. Put simply, bank staff are being laid off because we use internet banking and there's hardly any cash or cheques etc. left, so having a physical place called a "bank" scattered across the country no longer makes sense. Then of course, translators are losing their jobs because an LLM can do the work of 10 of them, with only one remaining to act as a proofreader, but let's just say I don't see it quite the way it's often portrayed today. As it stands, I don't think LLMs are much more than a Stochastic Parrot essentially the implementation of Conrad Gessner's dream of a universal library, where books are shredded and you can find only the snippets of information you want within the mass. We're starting to see automation in this area, but with what's available today, it doesn't go much further than that. > increased economic inequality, more big tech surveillance and control That's very obvious and LLM will help because of -

MIT Technology Review

AI can do a better job of persuading people than we do

OpenAI’s GPT-4 is much better at getting people to accept its point of view during an argument than humans are—but there’s a catch.

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arXiv.org

When Large Language Models are More PersuasiveThan Incentivized Humans, and Why

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to be highly persuasive, but when and why they outperform humans is still an open question. We compare...

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arXiv.org

Polarization by Design: How Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs

In democracies, major policy decisions typically require some form of majority or consensus, so elites must secure mass support to govern. Historic...

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arXiv.org

The Levers of Political Persuasion with Conversational AI

There are widespread fears that conversational AI could soon exert unprecedented influence over human beliefs. Here, in three large-scale experimen...

> all of which leads to societal conflict Very yes but just the social fracture between those who live in the present vs those who are stuck in the past suffice, economic crisis to impoverish the most will do the rest. > open source ai tech will empower those of us who demand freedom while chaos provides opportunity if we recognize it early and seize it As it stands, we are in an extremely fragile situation; while it is technically very accessible today to set up a personal home server and ditch every other service besides the internet connection, it is also becoming increasingly expensive due to high hardware costs. It is also quite unapproachable because the bulk of recent FLOSS projects lack a systemic vision. Nostr itself could potentially do a great deal, but buggy clients, numerous semi-abandoned relay implementations, and the lack of a "single self-hosted application that does everything" vision, an Emacs model for the network, well... Cut out a huge portion of the potential audience... Fundamentally, I quite agree that we ought to ENFORCE FLOSS and open hardware, but what I see is that most people are becoming less and less capable of being autonomous, and society is doing everything it can to enslave them, with massive success compared to the past. > push forward, never stop Always.

Mientras más estemos en bitcoin más nos vamos a salvar

real physical skills seem particularly resilient: electricians, plumbers, etc

Well, I’m gonna die!

Nah it is a bubble.

Left school after seiffedean made the take that AI would succeed and white collar jobs would be at risk. Work as an HVAC tech and zamboni driver. Best perc is the based HR environment and patriots I get to work with whilst doing honest work. Recommend the move to all my fellow Gen Z

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