[eru]

> AI feels different because quietly we are all aware, to differing degrees of comfort, that the world around us is collapsing.

We are living in an unprecedented golden age of peace and prosperity. What collapse are you talking about?

Yes, climate change is gonna knock a few percent points off global GDP, but it's not gonna be the end of the world. It's no worse than living in the UK rather than the US in these terms.

Keep in mind that this impact comes super imposed the our regularly scheduled growth.

We also also plenty of relatively low cost mitigation strategies. (Though many of them are not currently politically feasible.)

> [...] we're watching the United States transform into State Capitalism [...]

Hard to believe, but luckily there's more than one country on the planet.

Please vote with your feet!

[politelemon]

> We are living in an unprecedented golden age of peace and prosperity.

Golden ages are fictional constructs, applied retroactively as part of an agenda. There is no such thing as living in a current golden age without knowing the future.

I also doubt the statements about peace and prosperity. These just sound like pithy phrases to dismiss concerns.

[eru]

> Golden ages are fictional constructs, applied retroactively as part of an agenda. There is no such thing as living in a current golden age without knowing the future.

That's a weird self contradiction. I just contemporarily applied the Golden Age moniker, so your assertion is just plain wrong.

People have never been as rich as today, even poor people. Wars are a bit bursty, but if you smooth it out a bit, but the probability for an average human to become a casualty in a war has been going down over the centuries, and is still going down over the last decades.

[mna_]

>We are living in an unprecedented golden age of peace and prosperity. What collapse are you talking about?

War in Ukraine, Israel-Palestine conflict, the recent India-Pakistan conflict, China rapidly ramping up its military and openly carrying out drills that are clearly designed to be practise runs for a Taiwan takeover, China asserting its presence near the Phillipines militarily, European countries ramping up defense spending, and so on, are clear indicators that the world is not going through a golden age of peace.