Yes, technically you're right, we're not special -- we exist to fuck and reproduce; why not outsource everything else?

> I’ll continue to enjoy human art because it speaks of the lived experience of another human.

In this world we're working towards, where the AI companies succeed at building the AI they want, the only way you'd know is that it's worse quality and less interesting. It's still possible that AI fails, of course. But that's an awfully big bet to place.

> Now wait until we meet extraterrestrials. That’ll be another notch. Earth isn’t even special. Life isn’t even special. There’s probably a trillion biospheres at least.

Yes, but they're likely to be too busy doing their own thing to undermine the economics that allow for human creativity. "Special" is a red herring. Being able to sustain humans doing the things that make us human is what AI puts at risk.

Basically: If AI companies succeed, things like education become useless (outside of entertainment purposes), because AI will just let us externalize all of that kind of stuff. If we meet aliens, we'll still need education and creativity because the aliens are unlikely to insert themselves into our economic and social systems.

If your concern is that everyone will get lazy and dumb, that’s been a perennial sci fi concern for ages.

There’s some truth in it. I’m super lazy compared to an old school farmer and I don’t even really know how to feed myself off the land.

So will we all sit around and smoke pot and play video games and wank and order things designed and made by AI from companies run by AI?

I’m sure some people would do that but those are the people living like that today, basically. The punishment for this is a wasted life.

Everyone else will do different things. Just like we did when we didn’t have to manually plant and till the fields anymore.