RE: What kind of world do we want to live in?
Brilliant!
As I read your article, I kept thinking about the way in which virtually all of humanity's "help tools" can ultimately be traced back to at least a version of a desire to have "money for nothing."
Those people making "how to get rich without any work" videos on YouTube are simply the current generation of things done in the past, from pyramid chain letters in the 1980s to so-called "snake oil salesmen" 200 years ago who sold colored water with the promise that their "elixir" would bring eternal youth.
All of it preys on our inherent sense of sloth; our tendency to be lazy and want the easy way out.
That said, AI is perhaps the most dangerous form because of its potential to learn from itself, and become self-regenerating.
I don't want to live in an artificial world; being a pod inside the matrix. But I am older, and perhaps view things through a more jaded lens of perception than those in their teens and 20s who only see getting benefits without costs... blind to the greater "price" we could end up paying for that.
Oh, you took me back so many years, mentioning the chain letters. I have such a vague memory of them and I didn't even remember what was written in them, but I remember they were handwritten with a pen and when I found one in my mailbox I was pretty freaked out. That was so long ago.
Yes, people are dangerous, I think that is the more accurate definition, at least from my point of view and my perception. They are dangerous not only for others, but even for themselves. And when a self-destructive weapon like AI is put into their hands, they become even more dangerous and will shoot randomly like a mentally ill person who got hold of a machine gun.
Whether they are lazy is debatable. I've always wondered why the enormous effort that goes into developing a colossal scam isn't put into something meaningful, something useful. Humans are capable of putting truly incredible funds, time, knowledge and skills into creating debit card skimming devices for example, every era, every decade or every year has its own incredible fraudulent inventions of the human brain designed to deceive other people. And this is not a sign of laziness in any case. It is something else that I personally cannot fathom. But I wish I too had that elation with which YouTubers gleefully and shamelessly lie to people while ingloriously searching for ways to survive the moral way, because that way almost always fails...
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