If you truly believe short AI timelines, 'where do you want to live long-term?' means 'where do you want to die?'
littIeramblings · x · 2026-10-14
An AI community member on a 3-month US stay notes people keep asking whether she'd stay 'long term.' Under a sincere short-timelines view—human extinction within months to years—she argues the question really means 'do you want to die here or at home?' She observes that people discussing 'permanent roles' or 'long-term bases' still default to a far longer future than their stated beliefs imply, and that several were surprised she'd weigh 'not dying 5,000 miles from family' in her decision—evidence, she suggests, that people are hiding from the implications of their own worldview. She personally doubts everyone dies in the coming months, but doesn't rule it out.
More from AGI Musings
- Stanford and Databricks use AI agents to reproduce medical findings and test analytical robustness — ChengleiSi · 2026-10-23
- ISMS Fellow Avi Goldfarb: AI disruption raises returns to exploring research directions — avicgoldfarb · 2026-10-23
- signull on AI-found PHP exploits: economic liability is the forcing function legacy software needs — signulll · 2026-10-23
- TheStalwart: Talking computers are sparking a new philosophical boom, echoing ancient Greece — toptickcrypto · 2026-10-23
- AI cyberattacks could paradoxically accelerate AI development in an offense-defense arms race — kimmonismus · 2026-10-23
- Economist on AI detector Pangram: not a filter, but a useful verification signal — paulnovosad · 2026-10-23