Sure, one can trivially see how you get a literacy problem with the invention of TV and smart phones. It is much harder to see how you get lightcone-eating, faster-than-light, nanobot-spewing supermachines from current AI, and you don’t have any evidence of doomers in the past who have crossed such a massive gap.
Sure, one can trivially see how you get a literacy problem with the invention of TV and smart phones. It is much harder to see how you get lightcone-eating, faster-than-light, nanobot-spewing supermachines from current AI, and you don’t have any evidence of doomers in the past who have crossed such a massive gap.