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  "title": "Scott Aaronson: Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1tpurf9/scott_aaronson_dispatches_from_the_possibly_last/",
  "external_url": "https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9782",
  "upload_date": "20260528",
  "published_at": "2026-05-28T05:58:00+00:00",
  "transcript": "\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[43 upvotes] Scott Aaronson is a prominent theoretical computer scientist at UT Austin, a leading authority on quantum computing and complexity theory. He spent 2022–2024 on OpenAI's alignment team and was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences\n\n> It seems to me that we’re now over the top of this particular rollercoaster, and it will keep accelerating until we reach the bottom, wherever that might be. I don’t know whether to hope or dread that solutions to P versus NP and all our other great problems will be included in the ride—that our role, as human mathematicians, will be reduced to (at most) deciding which questions we find interesting and then understanding AI models’ answers to those questions.\n\n[16 upvotes] Scott Aaronson is always a pleasure to read and listen to. He doesn't repeat the clichés of doomers and skeptics, and he has his own perspective.\n\n[8 upvotes] Read the article, for those wondering it's just normo vibes on the possibility of human obsolescence. If you're interested in other things like history, technical or high level observations of things coming up, then it's not anything you'll be too interested in.\n\nFor those feeling like a trip through history lane, I can always recommend [the 2013 Mother Jones article](https://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/05/robots-artificial-intelligence-jobs-automation/) that introduced the gif of Lake Michigan filling up. You can really feel it these days with how the GB200 has over 6x the RAM of H200's, and the Vera Rubin is just over 2x the RAM of a GB200. The lake will be overflowing soon.\n\nFor those who want to reflect and navel-gaze at the end of an era, I always recommend [Jacob's Art In The Pre-apocalypse.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9N7Awpk9lE) I know it's old catfood to a lot of us, emotionally, but not everyone's as on the ball. Some will always deny the possibility that their world can change, despite there being a limited amount of oil in the ground.\n\nI'd also like to defend uncle Ray a little here. Many like to think of him as a hyper-optimist, but compared to a few folks here",
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