Can i stop working on my bachelors thesis if AGI arrives ?
Much like your eyes can't see blue the same way my eyes see blue, i assume your internal experience to be as much colored by the opinions and thoughts absorbed through social media as mine are. Processes in our subconscious notice, collect and distill what "they", read, other people, think. For a prehistoric human, alignment with the opinions and worldviews of others is essential for a good life in the prehistoric village. In modern times however, these processes are maladaptive. Instead of each input differing only slightly from the next, all referencing and being influenced by the same ground truth and events, worldviews are diverging faster and faster and show no sign of slowing down. Read more