That's a great narrative with a lot of truth in there. However, the big question is, who is the audience for this long essay? Practically no one. How long before this is all washed away from the memories and and vanished under the pile of slop that pours in everyday? Even if some soul has read it all, what are they supposed do about it? Would they really do anything? Even if they did something, what effect would it have? For all those to be true, let's say it would have a 0.001% probability.

That proves the fact that the audience is not really agentic (not the ones that can cause or influence things). The agentic nature in people was killed long back with all education, rules and pervasive reach of the state into the lives of people. Common people are just subjects without an intention and will at this point. They are like those leaves that float in a stream, while the stream finds its way.

At best, all that a today's average person can do is, post sone interesting post or comment on HN, or the other social media and count their likes, like I do now. There ends their agentic effort.

You read it, you let it tickle your braingibbles, you think about it for a few moments. That's it, that's the purpose.

It's a great narrative with a lot of truth when the author argues billions are going to die from climate change in the next decades, and that Musk and Altman selfishly hope AI can make up for the loss of human labor?

Yeah, no. This is extremist nonsense that borders on delusions. Someone has to say it, apparently.