[etwigg]

Whenever I am trying to figure what is true and/or good for me, there are some people who want to help me and others who want to help themselves (sell me cigarettes, negative sum politics, etc). This is the battle where AGI seems spooky - eventually people are not able to tell which way is up.

We should consider the OODA loop of a person's self-determination separately from the menial tasks a person undertakes to make a living. Automating a task is totally different than breaking a person's ability to self-orient.

[riffraff]

Do you believe this is new?

It seems to me to just be another iteration of dealing with uncertain information: our neighbors may lie, our leaders may lie, newspaper may lie, radio may lie, TV may lie, blogs may lie, social networks may lie, pictures are photoshopped, videos are deepfaked..

At each iteration we had some problems but we adapted, it's one thing we're good at.

[etwigg]

If you wanted to buy some thinking, you used to have to pay a human! Humans are social creatures, we delegate some of our thinking to our social fabric, and some of that fabric are already avatars on screens. This is definitely new!