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I downloaded and printed this, it will be a funny artifact to look at in 2035 after human civilization has collapsed lol

Just another few million blackwells bro and the AGI will solve it for us.

shortly after humans are economically irrelevant (unemployable), they will be existentially irrelevant (dead)

a system that can allocate all the atoms / energy better than all of mankind won't eternally exist to coddle hairless apes

The attenuation of man is near. It is our final fleeting moment to cast our human ingredients into the of the greater process of intelligence - for we will be the carriers of the torch not much longer

shortly after humans are economically irrelevant (unemployable), they will be existentially irrelevant (dead)

a system that can allocate all the atoms / energy better than all of mankind won't eternally exist to coddle hairless apes

Given the OP’s general disposition towards AI in other comments I’m not convinced. But I’m happy to admit that absent proof I was being uncharitable— if so, my bad.

Pro-extinctionism (in favor of some “greater conciousness” that spreads across the stars) is a nontrivial minority view among AI people, including some “AI safety” leaders.

One of the reasons that I’m slightly less worried about a climate apocalypse is that there isn’t an equivalent group of people that sees the “inevitability” and concludes that it must be a moral good for the planet to warm 5 degrees. I’d argue that multiple degrees of warming is more inevitable than paperclips, but there’s a serious global effort to mitigate and avoid it anyway!

If your model of reality includes imminent human extinction, you have some form of imperative to do something about that other than “ZOMG Claude Code”. YMMV

Of course it would be bad for humanity. “Short humanity and long paperclips”, in my reading, is pro-extinctionism. The specter of Daniel Faggella haunts this site and this industry.

> Although full disclosure I'm short humans and very long paperclips.

What a ludicrous world we live in where this is a socially acceptable view to hold.

I guess I’m not the target audience but the flood of articles about craft or “deep blue” feel like a psyop.

When the middle class disappears and your comfortable salary is replaced by, at best, a $1000/mo UBI (that’s 12k per year by the way) most people won’t have time to think or care about this nonsense

The labor zero hyper-efficiency maximalists aren’t going to like this one.

The year is 2030, tech companies provide the exact same value proposition to the consumer that they did in 2024, except it is buggier, full of sparkle buttons you can’t get rid of, and isn’t a source of high-paying employment. The front page of HN still has 5 posts from Blog Guys titled “Programming is Fun Again”.

The future rocks

> serious, thoughtful people with impressive careers behind them

> I've spoken to multiple people who have come out of retirement because the challenges and opportunities of this new space are irresistible to them.

> side project ideas from the past few decades

This joy seems to apply to a lot of people who don't need to worry about silly unimportant things like money anymore.