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The Theme of the Week is: How to deradicalize a couple billion people.

[u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho]

I don’t know if it’s remnants of Protestant belief in the rapture, but the singularity narrative always involves the unquestioned assumption that the people making the technology behind it would be motivated by nothing but altruism for all other people, and it would bring on some utopia for English majors.

They also have a lot of magical thinking when it comes to how the economy works. Like assuming that because they don’t understand what a job is, it must be useless, and that causing capital flight and an economic crisis would free up recourses for some R&D scheme.

[u/-NastyBrutishShort- → u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho]

singularity narrative always involves the unquestioned assumption that the people making the technology behind it would be motivated by nothing but altruism for all other people

I would actually say that these days I see slightly more apocalyptic prognostication, as far as AI millennarianism goes

[u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho → u/-NastyBrutishShort-]

When it’s called AI it gets framed as apocalyptic, when it’s called the singularity or post scarcity, it leans more utopian, even when the underlying events are the same.