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> This technology lowers the entry barrier to almost any field.

I am not saying it doesn't. But there is some factor n, that if the productivity increase is n times x in a short amount of time, the world will not evolve as rosily as you are thinking.

> It empowers self education, creative hacking and growth.

Again, I never said anything contrary. But making random new products for which there is no market by self education is not a bright prospect for much of humanity.

> Why are you making it sound like a disaster?

You are welcome to counter my points. I am just enumerating my view of the future.

> There's plenty of scope for AI to fill in without replacing humans.

Are you seeing the same pace of improvements I am seeing? One year ago there was no talk of any such thing, and now we have GPT4

AI might be very good for humanity as a whole over a millennium, but for individual human beings it is hard to say the same.




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