I’ve had an anxiety disorder my whole life, and am also not that worried about AI, so yeah, no shit, it’s possible to be anxious & gloomy about lots of things besides AI!
I was a little surprised by “fatality rate wasn’t that high”, so I looked it up, and Wikipedia ranks it as the fifth-worst epidemic/pandemic of all time by number of deaths, right behind the Black Death. As a percentage of world population, looks like it’d be like 0.2-0.4%? I’m honestly not sure where that leaves me personally re: “dodged a bullet”, just thought I’d share.
You know, I’m kind of a sceptic on AI doom. I think mst likely paths we end up ok.
But … this feeling that this post talks about. This feeling that really has nothing to do with AI … yes, ok, I feel that sometimes.
I don’t know man. I hope that the things I have done during my time on earth will be of use to someone. That’s all, I’d like, really.
I’ve had an anxiety disorder my whole life, and am also not that worried about AI, so yeah, no shit, it’s possible to be anxious & gloomy about lots of things besides AI!
And you know, the whole Covid pandemic thing was kind of horrible.
As it turned out, we mostly dodged a bullet and the fatality rate wasn’t that high.
But, I suspect the lockdowns had a psychological effect some of us are still suffering from.
Like, we’re being influenced by a trauma that is nothing to do with AI.
I was a little surprised by “fatality rate wasn’t that high”, so I looked it up, and Wikipedia ranks it as the fifth-worst epidemic/pandemic of all time by number of deaths, right behind the Black Death. As a percentage of world population, looks like it’d be like 0.2-0.4%? I’m honestly not sure where that leaves me personally re: “dodged a bullet”, just thought I’d share.
Number of deaths is misleading because of the higher world population.
Well, we’re kind of lucky the fatality rate wasn’t an order of magnitude higher, was was I was getting at.
But anyway, the point I was getting at is that people are traumatized from something unrelated to AI.