Living with AI doom: save for the future or spend it all on psychedelics?
flowersslop · x · 2026-11-11
Aella describes being split into two people: one planning kids, a book and savings because it believes in a future; the other spending down and doing psychedelics because it believes everyone dies in three years. flowersslop offers a third path: optimistically spend down and do psychedelics anyway — money will likely lose meaning when AI outperforms humans at everything, leaving all the time to have kids; and if we all die, nobody will thank you for being right about the apocalypse.
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