For how negative the scenario is on a lot of fronts, the text devotes the most space to the rosy colored aspects. An AI getting our protagonist into shape? Rehabilitating the "finance bro"? Curing cancer? Easy on the fuckin lube dammit.
The whole piece seems like it originated when someone assumes the very specific scenarions and predictions the lesswrong crowd has as a forgone conclusion and tries to imagine the most "humane" version. This is preachy if you're one of the crowd because "rosy" and its preachy if you're not because "forgone conclusions". This annoying taste is compounded by the general lack of substance or style otherwise.
And it's boring because it focuses on the most obvious first order effects and visions of this technology directly copied from the lab blog posts.
I love reading dry scifi. They generally have one single idea worth the time contained within them so I won't hold that against it. It's just that the ideas here have these two major holes.
The whole piece seems like it originated when someone assumes the very specific scenarions and predictions the lesswrong crowd has as a forgone conclusion and tries to imagine the most "humane" version. This is preachy if you're one of the crowd because "rosy" and its preachy if you're not because "forgone conclusions". This annoying taste is compounded by the general lack of substance or style otherwise.
And it's boring because it focuses on the most obvious first order effects and visions of this technology directly copied from the lab blog posts.
I love reading dry scifi. They generally have one single idea worth the time contained within them so I won't hold that against it. It's just that the ideas here have these two major holes.