Once you've read a history book or two, you start to see how repetitive certain sociological "tropes" are.
And you dont need to be an ivy league level historian to observe the phenomenon.
Every great invention that changed our mode of life had people claiming frogs would rain from the sky and the water would turn to blood.
Electricity, cars, the blues, the internet, cryptocurrency, and now AI.
Society and the world has a way of adjusting to and accommodating innovations that are more useful and desirable than they are deterimental.
Its happened many times before and it will continue to.
Our main issue as a species right now is an organizational and logistical one; we haven't figured out how to spur enterprise and mass cooperation without resorting to exploitation and coercion.
IMO, that is the issue that deserves our bandwidth.
If this problem were to be solved a lot of other problems would be solved at the same time, as they are but branching consequences of it.
Every great invention that changed our mode of life had people claiming frogs would rain from the sky and the water would turn to blood.
Electricity, cars, the blues, the internet, cryptocurrency, and now AI.
Society and the world has a way of adjusting to and accommodating innovations that are more useful and desirable than they are deterimental.
Its happened many times before and it will continue to.
Our main issue as a species right now is an organizational and logistical one; we haven't figured out how to spur enterprise and mass cooperation without resorting to exploitation and coercion.
IMO, that is the issue that deserves our bandwidth.
If this problem were to be solved a lot of other problems would be solved at the same time, as they are but branching consequences of it.
26-30, M
