alt Hacker News> I also have near zero concerns about that, but I worry that we will wipe ourselves out by social and economic chaos caused by AI.
Since people exercise their skills and brains less, deferring to AI, AI will only reduce our IQ.
Since people will spend more time talking to their AI bot than fostering social skills, AI will only reduce our social intelligence.
A dumber, less social world, is far less likely to be a successful world, even if the tools available are unprecedented.
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blfr • yesterday at 10:21 AM
> Since people exercise their skills and brains less, deferring to AI, AI will only reduce our IQ.
IQ is almost entirely hereditary so "using your brain" has no impact on it unless you're using it for mating.
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KerrAvon • yesterday at 2:40 AM
have you seen who's in charge of the US? it's here my friend.
> A dumber, less social world, is far less likely to be a successful world, even if the tools available are unprecedented.
En masse such worlds had successes in the past - renaissance, industrial revolution.
It's something else what I can't describe but it's the zeitgeist that was different when world recorded new successes. Look at CS revolution that led to PC and web of nineties and noughties, they didn't think about the result product , or how to steer thousand engineers to build something - amazing things were born in a very small teams, many times authored by a single person, who was deeply invested into the field and knew what he was doing.