[jmcqk6]

> There will be suffering during transition and there will be many that don’t fare well

Yeah, and the people suffering are not going to like that. If people are afraid of being in that group, then they will not be very happy about it.

If you put yourself in the shoes of someone suffering from AI, how comforting do you think your observations here are?

[aspenmartin]

Not comforting at all, in fact I would find it aggravating. Yet to imply that means this is somehow a cold and callous take is what I take an issue with because it ignores the vast majority on the other side of the fence, and the economic windfall and quality of life improvement for the majority. The last thing you want to be is like Europe or any other country that is regulating their way out of the loop. You think there will be suffering if AI continues to roll out? imagine if we stop. You want Xi to chuckle at your naïveté and build out enough power to leverage the entire global economy to bend to its will?

[jmcqk6]

I didn't imply anything. I just called out the emotional reality. There are a lot of externalized pain in the world today, and little recourse to addressing it. You can try telling people that they are naive and need to look at the big picture, but you might not see much success at getting your point across.

[aspenmartin]

Very fair. My goal isn’t to say pain doesn’t matter, it’s to say policy to change course that would disadvantage more people than it would help is doing more damage than good. We shouldn’t let our empathy cloud judgement as hard as that is as humans. Addressing pain, like people fighting to do data centers right (sans people trying to simply stop any data center construction) and ensure impact to local life is not made worse are good efforts because it imperils nothing. Companies will just optimize within regulatory framework (for the most part) and so grassroots movements to change the things we can are great.