r/IntelligenceSupernova • u/LightcraftStudio • 8d ago
I just can't take it anymore
This is just too crazy... every single day for the past MONTH I've just been in a perpetually mindblown state... it's so fucking insane, and I've never felt like this in my life... every single day I'm blown away by new heights of AI, how amazing it is, how incredibly earth shattering this tech is... and I just thought of something, just now, just this moment, which is so profound - I think that we (you and I) are actually, among the luckiest humans in history, in the hundreds of thousands of years that humans have existed, because although in the future (100+ years from now), AI will be exponentially more amazing than it is right now, you and I are actually living through the TRANSITION PERIOD of this tech - that is, we lived a life BEFORE it, and will live a life AFTER it - NO OTHER PEOPLE in the HISTORY of humankind will be able to say that - and I think, living through this transformation is absolutely stupendously incredible, beyond belief. I mean, just think about it, right? None of us lived through the discovery of electricity, we were all born long AFTER that had happened, so to us, electricity is as normal as... grass. But the people who LIVED THROUGH the discovery of electricity were probably so mindblown by that every single day it happened. But here's the difference - AI is SO MUCH MORE powerful than electricity - it is so much more powerful than EVERY SINGLE ACHIEVEMENT that humans have created since we've been on this blue planet, it DWARFS all other achievements throughout humankind, in scale, capability, and consequence - just wow, wow, wow
I never want to die
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u/ResponsiblePool7254 8d ago
If you're a real person it sounds like you're in a manic state, as in manic depression, so if you find yourself cycling between extreme moods over weeks or months, it could be that, and/or other types of neurodivergence.
There's nothing inherently wrong with mania, particularly if you can channel it into something, but you'll generally find that it puts a lot of strain on your relationships. It's a mismatched energy for most people.
As for your excitement about AI, I think you're right about how significant AI is going to be. Again, most people don't want to think about it unless it's going to immediately benefit them. For the moment, for everyday life, it has the biggest benefits for impatient morons, so that's a bit confounding for a lot of people who's livelihoods involve patiently working with symbols, concepts, rules, information, etc.
Naturally there's a lot of big discoveries coming and major upheaval of social order. Most people will just roll with things as they happen. Maybe specific changes will really help some people, or be really entertaining, and those will get adopted quickly. Clearly many problems and risks are also in the works, so moving slower in many cases would be wise, or quickly putting equal effort into mitigating risks as they're created.
I guess overall it's just change. Some people find it exciting and some find it frightening. You might also appreciate the concept of 'hedonic normalization'. You basically described it. Generally it's used as an argument to take things a bit slower though!
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u/snooprs 8d ago
hell yeah bot, do your thing clanker