Inject this future into my veins.

Is this the HUD pop-up you get, right before the AI-calculated Nine Familial Exterminations kill you, in New Shanghai, CA, in 2041?

I mean I sometimes think the impossible happy path for America is maybe that after 9/11 Bush goes "well that sucks; still, just 8% of traffic deaths so whatevs"

and, idk, has a vision from God about how American manufacturing is getting too hollowed out, and spends a few trillion on that instead

I take the golden mean between these positions, which is clearly correct

that civilization pretty clearly peaked about when I was 19 or 20, right as I was enjoying the first flush of adult freedom but before the heavy hand of path-dependence and regret had first rested upon my shoulder

I have mentally tagged "Anthropic safety papers shoot themselves in just one or two toes, rather than the whole foot" as a reason to be more alarmed about the state of affairs

I do like the innoculation prompting tech tho, it just is neat

are Yud takes like this downstream of some world model of his that also leads to his beliefs about AI?

or like, are both his infants-aren't-sentient and AI-kills-all downstream of the "I am a bearer of elite gnosis" character trait, rather than world model

I would chose execution by adversarial poetry over the alternatives

this is kinda why I own TSMC and AMD, and not NVIDIA and also why I kinda hate myself