I'm not sure "most of us think this way about the world we want for our kids"... at least I don't. Not at all. I find this toxic optimist "vision" utterly naive & disgusting. /1
In recent months I’ve noted a certain “fuck you, change my diaper” mentality that crops up again and again with regard to “AI”
What typifies this is a whirlwind of goalpost juggling, a sort of desperate, insatiable righteousness gasping to justify an existing feeling:
fear
The more I see it, the more I suspect a whole subset of technical practitioners are afraid of losing what they built their identities on: being special computer boys
LLMs, properly applied, are a cognitive prosthetic.
In other words, we’re encountering a commercial bid for a #transhumanist project with mass impact
Now THIS is genuinely scary stuff, because to become cognitively dependent on a corporate-owned extension of the mind is to cede significant power to people who genuinely do not deserve it.
Books? I'd really like a modern take on egoism that isn't saturated in fascist/libertarian thought because I personally think it makes more sense in a leftist context than individualist mythos