Pessimistic View: Humans Reduced to Conductors, Reality Destined to Fail
iphonein2008 · reddit · 2026-08-27
A short post expressing extreme pessimism about the future of AI. The author argues it can only end badly for humanity: humans are reduced to 'conductors' and cannot compete regardless of throughput; AI hasn't enabled underdogs but supercharged existing monopolies; once humans are no longer the bottleneck, society will fail. The author laments that computer science used to be cool because it was challenging, but now everything seems solved.
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