Boomers got houses and good jobs. Doomers get AGI

&quot;Doomers, in case you’re wondering, are Millenials and younger folks who haven’t yet found their place. [...] a Doomer might bring up to explain their negative worldview, like climate change, politics, or wealth inequality, the source of their angst is that they lack a sense of belonging in modern society.&quot;<p>This seems a little cynical. The Author can&#x27;t think of _any_ other reason to hold concern on those topics?

How does society and its systems serve its constituents? This is the core of politics, and plenty of brainpower is already devoted to it. Assuming AGI surpasses human intelligence, I&#x27;m still not sure how it helps with politics. The problem generally isn&#x27;t with cognitive bandwidth, it&#x27;s more about underlying assumptions and principles that differ. In order to come up with better solutions, better &quot;understanding&quot; (modeling?) of those cultural values is required. It&#x27;s all well and good to say we should allocate one unit of AGI to each individual in some sort of democratic distribution, but how does the individual encode their values in the AGI? Through a series of Socratic dialogues? What happens when the AGIs point out the inherent contradictions of human nature? How will the human masters deal with the cognitive dissonance raised by super-smart machines? Will we trust them? Should we?

This is machine-generated, right?

Doomer seems like an ill-suited term for younger generations. As a Gen X who doesn&#x27;t like things to fit into neat little stereotypes, I find that younger generations are incredibly optimistic and creative in how they view and change the world around them. Much of it has to do with technologies and tools, but there&#x27;s a creativity there that seemed less common beforehand. Just my two cents.

Does this guy know anything useful about AGI that I don&#x27;t (all I know is that we&#x27;re super fucking far away)? All of these articles seem to be him tossing around ideas that feel good to his mind, and no substance.

Gen X are original doomers in spirit. FTW was the motto, and still is for some. Agreed, pension funds are ruining everything. And we do need our own AGI. Certainly not theirs. Where do we start is the question.

I came hoping that this was about people who play Doom.

&quot;If you ask a Boomer, life is pretty good now...&quot; You don&#x27;t get much more delusional than that. Seems divisive and bigoted.

I shy away from generational griping, because I think a lot of it is misleading. People tend to use statistics that suit them.<p>Eg. a lot more people are staying in school for a lot longer. There are a lot more 25-year-old grad students now as a portion of the population of 25-year-olds, than in 1960. They use individual salaries instead of household because of the growth in dual-incomes, etc.<p>None of those statistics are incorrect per se, but one can strategically choose the stats that are in their favour.<p>A lot of the difference can simply be chalked up to the generation that preceded the boomers being relatively poor in comparison to their kids.