My thesis is not so "drastic", or "outlandish", it is a quiet pitiful death for our species as it enters a while(true) loop that our species never escapes from. It doesn't require "superintelligence" or AGI or any other technology that doesn't already exist today, and it doesn't rapidly alter behaviors that have existed since the dawn of the digital age and surveillance capitalism. That's what makes it so insidious, AI will act like a warm, familiar, and comfortable blanket and humanity will go to sleep and never wake up.

Humanity isn't murdered. It surrenders.

Advanced drilling techniques that allow humans to drill deeper than ever thought possible are already a reality and in use today.

https://youtu.be/gO_LLqZfNdY

This combined with the gains in efficiency in AI will together create a world where simple answers to complex questions become part of every day life. It will be no less transformative if not more so than the invention of the search engine and the internet itself.

My thesis is not so "drastic", or "outlandish", it is a quiet pitiful death for our species as it enters a while(true) loop that our species never escapes from. It doesn't require "superintelligence" or AGI or any other technology that doesn't already exist today, and it doesn't rapidly alter behaviors that have existed since the dawn of the digital age and surveillance capitalism. That's what makes it so insidious, AI will act like a warm, familiar, and comfortable blanket and humanity will go to sleep and never wake up.

Humanity isn't murdered. It surrenders.