AGI shock may hit less hard: moderns already lived through decades of upheaval
morqon · x · 2026-10-04
Teo Jaffee argues people are better prepared for AGI than commonly assumed, because technological change has been arriving in an accelerating tempo. The median American born in 1986 has already lived through the fall of communism, the Internet, e-commerce, 9/11, social media, the iPhone, the financial crisis, COVID and more — whereas a typical Englishman on the eve of the Industrial Revolution saw virtually no social or technological change at all, making the following decades unprecedented. morqon quips that "the very online will be fine."
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