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yoyohello13yesterday at 11:21 PM1 replyview on HN

I assume you don't ascribe to the thought that friction leads to growth. In this future of complete frictionless existence wont humanity stagnate? In this world of no effort, nothing has meaning.


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somesortofthingtoday at 12:29 AM

More or less, yeah. I'm not a proponent of it, I just think there's enough inertia in that direction of short-term vastly-superintelligent AI. Maybe we can figure out how to become subordinate components of a machine like that, but I think that's the best we can reasonably hope for.