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  "title": "I don’t think we’re psychologically prepared for how alien the world after ASI is going to be",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1vphdpw/i_dont_think_were_psychologically_prepared_for/",
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  "published_at": "2026-08-15T23:30:42+00:00",
  "transcript": "gonna start by saying I’m feeling very iffy about ASI because I kinda enjoy my life rn, but that aside:\n\nafter going down the AI 2040 rabbithole, I keep thinking that even people who talk about ASI constantly are still imagining the future in a way that is way too normal.   \nWe talk about AI replacing people’s jobs, humanoid robots, self-driving cars, universal basic income, whatever the fuck.  \nI think that might be the equivalent of someone in 1955 predicting the year 2000, trying to use our current world as a basis for the future world. \n\nAI 2040 describes a scenario where even after deliberately slowing AI development down, by 2031 a third of cognitive labor is being performed by AI and robots are already doing about a tenth of physical labor. The document literally describes ordinary people as being too “whiplashed” by technological change to process what’s happening. **And that’s the slowed version**, can’t imagine what our world is going to look like since it seems we are going full speed ahead.  \nAnd people will say “oh that’s just fantasy!” But is it? Imagine our world from the view of someone born in 1712. We are living “sci-fi” as we live and breath \n\nIf ASI actually produces the kind of acceleration its proponents expect, somebody born afterward might look back at 2026 the way we look at 1500.  \nExcept the historical gap between us would be just fourteen years MAX\n\nI really, really don’t think we’re psychologically prepared for that\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[1 upvotes] We're not psychologically prepared for the way the world is right now. Birth rates are crashing throughout the world, especially in the west\n\nDo you know what kind of stress you have to expose a primate to in order to get it to not want to have children? It's absurd\n\nBut no one cares. No one is taking it seriously. Unless Agi proves a source of stress relief, it's just another straw\n\n[1 upvotes] Few are ever psychologically prepared for anything they've yet to experience. If AI could be used today for mental health, behavioral understanding, and emotional learning, there might be a chance. \n\n[1 upvotes] Reminds me of the 50s when they predicted that in the 2000s that we would have a computer in every single home, and the concept drawings showed homes with whole dedicated rooms to store the massive room-sized computer\n\n[1 upvotes] I just finished reading The Postmortal and The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect... nobody is ready for the changes that might come.  All I'll say is \"Utopia\" (if we can even achieve that) comes at real costs.\n\n[1 upvotes] After ASI? It's getting alien right now. ",
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