Interesting times. Founders focused on automating programmers, and programmers being forced move up the abstraction layer and automate themselves and everything else. Who will best automate who?
We're literally creating simulations right now. The one thing Matrix got wrong is that The Architect is just a regular person. Infinite recursive simulations.
It's fascinating to observe how so many people only allegiance is conforming with the Zeitgeist in exchange for status. Best time to see this phenomenon is as it changes (and it always does).
@naval I don't see any contradiction. "The unexamined life is not worth living" - therapy helps people learn how to examine their own lives as an external observer.
If AI is used to reason about problems, long term, won't it lower humanity's ability to reason due to lack of practice? If it does, what to do when it's taken away? Would you even notice?