I found this post early in my reading on AI risk and EA topics. It persuaded me about how the world as we know know it is completely unsustainable—even though it feels normal and “business as usual” to us. This post shaped my views, specifically in making me more sympathetic to the “hinge of history” hypothesis and seeing more clearly the tremendous impact that transformative AI could have on the world/future.
Update: Since I think this series of posts should be considered together, I’ve just written a new review of the entire “The Most Important Century” series. So I’m effectively retracting the review I wrote of the All Possible Views About Humanity’s Future Are Wild post below, which is now redundant, and in which I think I also confused some of the content between this post and This Can’t Go On (another post in the same series).
I found this post early in my reading on AI risk and EA topics. It persuaded me about how the world as we know know it is completely unsustainable—even though it feels normal and “business as usual” to us. This post shaped my views, specifically in making me more sympathetic to the “hinge of history” hypothesis and seeing more clearly the tremendous impact that transformative AI could have on the world/future.