I’ve seen the Doom vs Boom GDP forecast a few times and every time I have to ask… Would GDP per capita not go asymptotically up in the extinction case? The numerator would increase as AI generates more domestic product but the denominator would decrease as we are extincified. So the “singularity: extinction” line should match and then exceed the “singularity: benign” line before becoming undefined.
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Reminds me of the - “No CGI” is actually Invisible CGI—video series from a few years ago. Linked below. At this point, a substantial percentage of writing is at least aided by LLMs so the only LLM writing you notice is just the bad writing. I don’t fully buy this but I think it explains a least a portion of the discourse.
The rub is that influencers are the ones influencing elections, policy, and discourse right now. Whereas “professionals” have reach an all time level of distrust. Influencers vs professionals is indeed the problem of our time, however I think we’ve tried the solution you’ve proposed countless times and have already failed. One just has to look at how messaging about climate change, vaccines, economics, and more turned out. To me, you have described the way the world should work but not the way that it is currently working.
The solution isn’t going to be acting more professional or acting more influency. Science communication has tried every discrete value on that axis over the last few decades and still failed. The solution is going to be orthogonal to it.
This can be taken further and even weaponized by those actually at fault. Disempower your service employees so much that they can’t accomplish anything coupled with having no ability to escalate issues and suddenly there is no recourse to fix problems and your only option is to harass a powerless call center employee until you wasted enough of your time to justify giving up on the endeavor.
“I’m sorry, I don’t have the ability to issue a refund for these tickets that were canceled”
“Well that’s unacceptable and makes me very angry.”
“Sir, please don’t yell at me. It’s not up to me.”