[Mistletoe]

I have the opposite impression looking around at the current situation. The tech giants moved fast and broke things and they broke humanity.

[rixrax]

You're probably not wrong. But I think we should recognize that what is humanity is rather fluid. If you were to talk to the 15th century clergymen, I think they would tell the horrors of printing press and how it has/will break humanity. And they wouldn't be wrong either. Humanity evolves, and, well, that's it. And overall, hopefully, and this is where we hopefully can effect positive change, we can steer the change to more humane, and moral direction.

[Vecr]

It matters what you think of democracy. "The people" don't want transformative AI. The polls bear it out.

[exe34]

the people want to have their cake and eat it.

[Vecr]

What do you mean? The options on the table are crazy gamer fantasies that presumably aren't widely supported, dystopia, or worse.

People want some improved automation, but not too much.

[exe34]

> People want some improved automation, but not too much.

that's right, they want automation to reduce their costs, but not replace their jobs/business. the people employing them also want the same thing.

[Bluestein]

The people want their horseless carriage and their horses too.-

[exe34]

I think they simply shone a light on human nature. Those aspects were there and still affected people, but we had the illusion that we were rational humanist actors - and even then that was only in the west. the internet simply shattered the illusion.