my messages are so gloomy because i am heartbroken, that given a technological miracle again, we could snatch tragedy from the jaws of our emancipation.

will you not see that people could be truly empowered and yet will instead be oppressed?

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CaptWorld an hour ago | parent [-]

So oppressed that they are one of the main reasons for positive gdp growth in the USA, tax revenues, mathematical/scientific innovations etc. They're doing all this but still can't imagine a positive vision for the world but be a doomer. What a sad state the world is in, the humans are more prosperous, healthier than ever but looks like the seven deadly sins might never go away.

	▲	lukewarm707 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		you say ai increases gdp growth, tax revenues and scientific innovations. then you say that ai is good. that is not formally valid. in between those two you are smuggling the assumption that gdp growth, tax revenues and scientific innovations are good. a) those metrics are poisoned, per Goodheart's law. b) they are not good and human welfare will get worse as gdp, tax revenues and innovations grow. i leave b for the reader to complete.