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Haven't watched the video yet but have bookmarked, cheers. Tristan Harris is a smart dude and I like his stuff.
The arguments are two different strands happening in parallel as far as I can tell.
First: this is a technology disruption like the Agricultural Revolution or the First (waterpower, steampower) and Second (electricity) Industrial Revolutions. A new tool has come along and it will destroy jobs and professions and industries. The thing is, this tool is coming for the Eloi. It's coming for "brain workers". Writing, calculation, research, art. It was OK when it was dirty poor people who were getting fucked out of livelihoods but this time around it's affecting people like us.
Second: "paperclips", we all know what that means. Two possible outcomes of actual AGI: we become immortal, we go extinct.
I think the drama involved in the second strand of the argument is stopping people from engaging sensibly with the first.
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