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I also don't think the problem is as insurmountable as the blacksmith/aerospace analogy makes it out to be - I could certainly get up to speed. The problem really becomes what I call a Jurassic Park kind of problem - we've spent a lot of time thinking about if we can do AI, but not enough time asking if we *SHOULD*. What I keep coming back to in all of this is this... Is AI being used to: 1. Build humanity up 2. Enrich our knowledge 3. Save our planet 4. Solve inequality and suffering What I see happening is: 1. People are being replaced, wages are being stolen 2. People are losing their critical reasoning skills. Disinformation and/or hallucinated propaganda are now automated 3. We're increasing energy usage, heat production, and pollution that 4. Is being used to build tools that make rich people richer, automate warfare, destroy art, and generally increase the divides both real and digital. It's an awful situation and it comes down to a lot of ethical considerations. I don't see a lot of options where I can maintain a living and most importantly (I'm in the US) decent health insurance without either putting up with some serious ethical compromises or taking a huge risk and changing careers