gonna start by saying I’m feeling very iffy about ASI because I kinda enjoy my life rn, but that aside: after going down the AI 2040 rabbithole, I keep thinking that even people who talk about ASI constantly are still imagining the future in a way that is way too normal. We talk about AI replacing people’s jobs, humanoid robots, self-driving cars, universal basic income, whatever the fuck. I think that might be the equivalent of someone in 1955 predicting the year 2000, trying to use our cur...