Yeah, that is also my hope, but you're right. What AI is bringing in is driving me completely out of my mind. I remember arguing with
@Rit4lin about the potential sentience of AI and I argued how the chaos of humanity is far too different from the boolean logic, therefore this imagined eater utopia with only bots in the matrix while we're hooked to pods is possiby centuries forward but it is increasingly starting to feel like it's just across the horizon. I'm thinking Rit is right on this AI superintelligence becoming sentient and I'm probably wrong.
It won't be a perfect transitition, but I am sensing AI is coming so fast. What I particularly liked about Keen's analysis in that episode though is his foregrounding of the biosphere as a key player and game changer in all this. People like to imagine the productivity from these bots and data centers while disregarding whether or not there is enough water or copper or soil for these systems. Many AI enthusiasts like to argue that when AI reaches superintelligence, none of that will matter because then AI will be able to produce matter out of thin air, but I am very hesitant. Even if we are able to harness energies that won't harm the biosphere, we don't really understand the aftereffects.
We could be hitting a dinosaur/ Easter-Island extinction level here if AI goes on unchecked or the AI genuises are perfectly right and then our human specie becomes more obsolete over time.
