This nicely sums up the feeling of “excitement” I get when thinking about this sort of thing too. It’s more of an anxiety really. I agree it’s very related to the feeling of COVID-19 as it was unfolding in the first weeks of February and March 2020. It’s also similar to the feeling I got when Trump was elected, or on Jan 6. It’s just this feeling like something big and momentous is happening or is about to happen. That all of a sudden something totally consequential that you hadn’t previously considered is coming to pass. It’s a weird, doom-y sort of feeling.
This nicely sums up the feeling of “excitement” I get when thinking about this sort of thing too. It’s more of an anxiety really. I agree it’s very related to the feeling of COVID-19 as it was unfolding in the first weeks of February and March 2020. It’s also similar to the feeling I got when Trump was elected, or on Jan 6. It’s just this feeling like something big and momentous is happening or is about to happen. That all of a sudden something totally consequential that you hadn’t previously considered is coming to pass. It’s a weird, doom-y sort of feeling.
Yup. I’d liken it to the surreality of a bad dream where something irrevocable happens, except there’s no waking up.
Don’t worry, as soon as AGI goes live we’ll all have a peaceful, eternal rest.