> Am I hallucinating?

Nah, those risks are mostly correct (the only exception is the water, though even here this danger is only over-stated in aggregate, hydrology is complicated and local depletion can happen).

Plus a whole bunch more of other risks on top of that.

But we've been through what you list before, those specifics you list are close to a repeat of the industrial revolution.

The cognitive requirements changed radically: though this manifested as mandatory schooling, I'd expect our modern ignorance of farm work, coopering, blacksmithing, etc. would seem like atrophy to someone from 1750.

Culture always looks like it's ending: just because I (genuinely) think that LLMs are a memetic monoculture where apathy and price are likely to enforce its use as effectively as censorship ever did for dictatorships, doesn't mean people weren't upset about movies switching from live bands to pre-recorded "robot" musicians. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-ag...

Likewise, compare information slop to yellow journalism. Compare energy use to the initial introduction of electricity. Job losses as old crafts were lost to machines which automated the labour. Copyright laws needing to be created in the first place because of the price and availability of printing presses.

And what we got from the industrial revolution was the power to create a lot more stuff. Somehow this didn't lead to a 15 hour work-week, but to us wanting even more stuff, so innovation and progress didn't halt.

Was this a net positive, or net negative? We're obese and unfit, hoarding so many things that one big industry is self-storage where stuff you don't use and can't (or won't) sell can sit ignored and free up more room for buying more things just like them.

> Banging my head on problems until I solved them was what made me a good professional and a satisfied individual, not "this".

Pick harder problems. LLMs can speed up the foundations, but can't (yet) reliably break down huge projects into chunks that would take a human an hour to a day, and can't well handle tasks more complex than that.