👁️ Goal: to create a document my uncle can understand.

🧠 Making it as impartial as Kurzgesagt

Summary

<aside> <img src="/icons/rocket_purple.svg" alt="/icons/rocket_purple.svg" width="40px" /> Imagine if someone from 1750 saw our world today—they’d be shocked by airplanes, robots, smartphones, internet, and AI.

for context, the greatest innovations at 1700’s were… the fckng spinning wheel, steam engines and mechanical clocks… and now we do nanotechnology.

¯\(ツ)/¯

But if someone from 1500 visited 1750, they’d be surprised, but not to the point of complete disbelief. This difference is due to the rapid acceleration of technological progress over time.

Most likely, we’re going to see more difference between now 2025 and 2040, than between 1750 and today - which is hard even to imagine.

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<aside> ‼️ To give an idea, some of the upcoming things may include:

• Having another species on Earth smarter than Humans (tech symbiosis)
• Work (yes, having a job) becoming unnecessary in society
• Immortality

… in our lifetimes.

“what the f***, this is a joke, that's science fiction. not in our lifetimes.”

• you say*

Amazing that you're a critical thinker :) that's gonna be very helpful here. Let's go. 🚪

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so, choose what you want to see:

⏱️ 1min explanation

➿ in-depth explanation

👥 The Most Qualified People, ahead of the industry

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Questions in my mind

• Who are the most competent people to talk about this?
• Who, from outside the industry, could have some perspective that undermines that?
• Where to seek disconfirming evidence?

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• AGI = autonomously outperforms humans in most cognitive jobs that can be done remotely. AGI would be capable of performing the work of a researcher or engineer.