I can't wait for the effective altruism and now effective accelerationism to finally come full circle to effective pragmatism.<p>It's hilarious that people are so focused on what AI will or won't do, but manage to ignore the failings of human thought - such as condensing complex topics into opposing binary stances dismissing all nuance.<p>AI isn't going to kill us all nor bring about utopia anytime soon.<p>It's just going to enhance human successes and shortcomings much like every other empowering technology to date. There will be misuse balanced against the application of good intentions. And the standstill of humans vs humans will gradually nudge in one direction and the other in a pendulum like global tug of war.<p>Anyone who is predicting any kind of absolutist answer probably doesn't have a great track record of predictions, which you'd think would be something we'd collectively look at more often when looking at who we listen to for predictions of the future, instead of simply gravitating to those confirming our own biases in whichever direction we've already been leaning.