Basically this. AI may upend the trend of tech changing in ways that don’t leave the human body and brain radically altered. The most reliable constant in human history is us, we are made of the same genetics as we were thousands of years ago.
AI progress may change this by accelerating other technologies, including some that have the potential to remake the human body as totally as the world was remade in the 18th-21st centuries.
The reason we even can compare prices and calculate inflation in the way we do is that
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/09/welcome-to-the-future-nauseous/ (which I originally found via
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2015/10/assimilated-futures.html ).
Basically this. AI may upend the trend of tech changing in ways that don’t leave the human body and brain radically altered. The most reliable constant in human history is us, we are made of the same genetics as we were thousands of years ago.
AI progress may change this by accelerating other technologies, including some that have the potential to remake the human body as totally as the world was remade in the 18th-21st centuries.