It took me 3 months to realize that I completely failed to inquire about your second friend. I must have seen him as having the lesser problem and dismissed it out of hand, without realizing that acknowledging the perceived ease of a problem isn’t the same as actually solving it, like putting off easy homework.
He isn’t my friend, he’s just some guy who decided to be a singularity cheerleader. But his website is still the same—super-AI is inherently good and can’t come soon enough, scarcity is the cause of most problems and abundance is coming and will fix it, life in the pre-singularity world is tragic and boring and bearable only because the future will be infinitely better.
It took me 3 months to realize that I completely failed to inquire about your second friend. I must have seen him as having the lesser problem and dismissed it out of hand, without realizing that acknowledging the perceived ease of a problem isn’t the same as actually solving it, like putting off easy homework.
How is your second friend turning out?
He isn’t my friend, he’s just some guy who decided to be a singularity cheerleader. But his website is still the same—super-AI is inherently good and can’t come soon enough, scarcity is the cause of most problems and abundance is coming and will fix it, life in the pre-singularity world is tragic and boring and bearable only because the future will be infinitely better.