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Everyone? Imo more than half are worried, some members are thinking about switching careers.

Two random examples by searching algolia for a minute (entire posts, not just single comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008901

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33884202

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You are right, but the more prominent members in this community believe there is no issue, at least as far as I have seen. Of course I do not read everything (I still have a job), but I do read quite a lot. I see more the seniors/established saying no worries and the juniors worry. But I also notice that the people who don’t worry are in a reality distortion field where they never work or did work with bad programmers for instance. They were smart, went to a good schools, have friends with 130+ iqs and think ai is far removed. If that is true or not (the ai being far from 130 human iq) is not relevant; it is better or at least good enough and definitely faster at many many things compared to most humans, but many people here never meet these ‘most humans’ because they have none around them.

There were 130IQs thinking the internet and crypto had little value as well (we can argue about crypto's utility) but the point still stands: high IQ doesn't preclude someone from being wrong, it just reduces the likelihood.

And typically when high IQ people are wrong as rare as it is, they're really really wrong

Sure, but the thing is that people are in their own circles and if you only know and talk to smart people, you get a very skewed view of humanity. You start believing we as a whole are far better than we are.

Precisely. The future is not bright at all.

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