Hacker News with Generative AI: Humanity

Human (quarter--mile.com)
Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is no art. There is only logic.

Science Fiction, Humanity, Artificial Intelligence

736 points by surprisetalk 9 days ago | 270 comments

Pope Leo XIV lays out his vision, identifies AI as a main challenge for humanity (apnews.com)

Pope, Religion, Artificial Intelligence, Humanity, Future

5 points by layer8 13 days ago | 0 comments

AI is the kill switch on the human imagination (gavinchalcraft.substack.com)
For those of you who have read my previous articles you will no doubt be familiar with a phrase I have often repeated, perhaps ad nauseam. That phrase is: AI is the kill switch on the human imagination, self determination and Self-Realization.

Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Humanity

30 points by drcwpl 48 days ago | 11 comments

The Evil Vector (scottaaronson.blog)
Last week something world-shaking happened, something that could change the whole trajectory of humanity’s future. No, not that—we’ll get to that later.

AI, Technology, Future, Humanity

6 points by ingve 81 days ago | 1 comments

Are We Multiplanetary Yet? (arewemultiplanetaryyet.com)
No 😔

Space Exploration, Humanity, Future, Technology

18 points by da-x 138 days ago | 16 comments

Richard Powers on What We Do to the Earth and What It Does to Us (newyorker.com)
“Playground,” Powers’s new novel, aims to do for the oceans what “The Overstory” did for trees, shaking us out of our human exceptionalism.

Environment, Literature, Novels, Humanity

8 points by mitchbob 252 days ago | 3 comments

A new movement of luddites is rising up against AI (theguardian.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Social Commentary, Technology, Humanity

8 points by Emigre_ 300 days ago | 1 comments

E.B. White's Beautiful Letter to a Man Who Had Lost Faith in Humanity (themarginalian.org)

Humanity, Literature, Essays, Writing

26 points by Tomte 311 days ago | 0 comments

Do Games Like Factorio Or EVE Online Sap The Intellectual Potential Of Humanity? (reddit.com)

Video Games, Humanity, Intellectual Potential

16 points by optimalsolver 343 days ago | 16 comments

The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? (nautil.us)