Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Eric Weinstein - All Hell Is About to Break Loose" video.

"I'm not living an archival life, worthy of being remembered?" -- How many do, broadly? Then again, how many do, narrowly? Do you need everyone to know your name? How many do you need to remember your name? How many can your stories help because they're your stories, and not some stranger's?
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"The pace of change is such that we can't control anything" No. It's that the brakes are off. Mothers are no longer around for their kids to keep them off of social media, or to keep the creeps out of schools. The actual amount of change -- as Eric points out -- is minuscule. Now that Moore's Law has been broken (when was the last time one of your laptops was a significant upgrade? How long can you go without replacing it?) even the digital realm is slowing to a halt. Instead of being within arm's length of their kids to keep them safe, women stretch out the powers of government and culture to make sure we never to anything "unsafe", like to go the Moon or Mars.
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An AI holds a mirror up to nature, though, so I suppose by that definition it can be art. But, it will not have the same sensation that humans experience when seeing either the art or the subject of the art.
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"If your life isn't worth reading you've failed" Status hierarchy even in death, Eric? Find a focused audience, have your fifteen minutes (or even eternity) of fame.
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"The small change that led to the [unspecified virus of unknown origins] caused a catastrophe." It caused a cytokine storm of epic proportions, because the guy we mistakenly put in charge of dealing with the problem was prioritizing keeping a bunch of people with AIDS alive, over the good of basically everyone else in the world.
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"I find that truckers [et al] are listening to podcasts and studying my work, and we mistakenly don't take them seriously as intellectuals" Yeah, I noticed this too -- the infamous "trolley problem" is dealt with on every freeway on Earth, every day, and the solution is the amount of braking distance every trucker leaves in front of him. If you sneak into that zone, the trucker has already determined that if he has to make a choice between rear-ending you (possibly fatally) or jack-knifing his big rig and risking is trailer taking out half a dozen cars beside him, he's already decided to sacrifice you.
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"Anything you have to do that's repetitive, will no longer be something you can do for a living" That's mostly true already, and has been moving that direction for 150 years or more. Aren't we used to that by now?
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“Sir Thomas More: Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher; perhaps a great one. Richard Rich: If I was, who would know it? Sir Thomas More: You; your pupils; your friends; God. Not a bad public, that.” ― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
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"Does it matter what the lyrics are, if they didn't come from the human heart?" What a language model does, is it presents a sophisticated amalgamation of all the language it takes in. Human minds do much the same thing -- EXCEPT we have embodied experience to go with that as a sanity check. An AI cannot feel pain, grief, or other human sensate emotion -- it can only process second-hand accounts of them. Is that enough?
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"Mars is like Joshua Tree Monument -- beautiful, but it gets old quickly" Mars can also be a lot like Las Vegas -- add water, from whatever source, and suddenly you get something a lot more exciting.
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"We're easily bored by things that aren't worthy of our attention" Define "worthy". Most people can't. (Myself included, a lot of the time.)
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Why are we being lied to about climate change? We need to save some oil and coal for later. After reading mid-20th-century science fiction, one reason to leave petrochemicals in the ground, is to make sure we still have some to rebuild civilization after a collapse. It's why we're willing to burn other peoples' petrochemicals. It's also why we don't build new nuclear (which could be incredibly destructive during a civilizational collapse). It may not be true, but it's the best I can come up with.
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"Embedded growth obligation" Obesity is self-limiting and unpleasant. Alternatively, we can look at different numbers other than GDP -- productivity, median income, housing affordability -- we can watch something else go up, for a healthy change.
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If we assume we have only one planet (belied by the likes of Elon Musk), then our growth is severely curtailed. If not, the sky is quite literally the limit. People who want only one Earth want to strangle humanity in its cradle.
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