Gap year during the singularity - by Sofia - Thin Slice

To doom, or not to doom?

GPT-generated. Baby Sofia, grown-up Eliezer. I quit my job at the end of last year. The plan was to take ~half a year off and return to society in the fall for grad school. However, the rapid pace of AI progress and collective psychosis emanating from my Twitter timeline are making me question whether anything I have planned is a good idea. Can one even make “a plan” anymore? I see things like: “I guess there’s maybe a 10-20% chance of AI causing human extinction in the coming decades ...” And “Four years ago, humans were the undisputed masters of our planet. Four years from now we…

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