Seb Krier: "Things will get weird" is a social move, not a prediction — be concrete about AI change
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-11
Seb Krier argues that sweeping framings like "things will get weird" or "society will be completely transformed" serve a social function more than an epistemic one, and urges people to make concrete, specific claims about how AI will change things instead.
He adds a counterintuitive observation: people acclimatize to technological change faster than expected. Five years ago, today's coding agent capabilities would have sounded "crazy," yet in practice he got used to them quickly — the real phenomenology of change is usually just "huh, I guess I do that differently now," not permanent awe.
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