This is the story I use to express what a world where we fail looks like to left-leaning people who are allergic to the idea that AI could be powerful. It doesn’t get the point across great, due to a number of things that continue to be fnords for left leaning folks which this story uses, but it works better than most other options. It also doesn’t seem too far off what I expect to be the default failure case; though the factories being made of low-intelligence robotic operators seems unrealistic to me.
Thanks for the review! Curious what you think the specific fnords are—the fact that it’s very space-y?
What do you expect the factories to look like? I think an underlying assumption in this story is that tech progress came to a stop on this world (presumably otherwise it would be way weirder, and eventually spread to space).
This is the story I use to express what a world where we fail looks like to left-leaning people who are allergic to the idea that AI could be powerful. It doesn’t get the point across great, due to a number of things that continue to be fnords for left leaning folks which this story uses, but it works better than most other options. It also doesn’t seem too far off what I expect to be the default failure case; though the factories being made of low-intelligence robotic operators seems unrealistic to me.
I opened it now to make this exact point.
Thanks for the review! Curious what you think the specific fnords are—the fact that it’s very space-y?
What do you expect the factories to look like? I think an underlying assumption in this story is that tech progress came to a stop on this world (presumably otherwise it would be way weirder, and eventually spread to space).