Hacker News with Generative AI: Humanity

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.
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.
Are We Multiplanetary Yet? (arewemultiplanetaryyet.com)
No 😔
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.
A new movement of luddites is rising up against AI (theguardian.com)
E.B. White's Beautiful Letter to a Man Who Had Lost Faith in Humanity (themarginalian.org)
Do Games Like Factorio Or EVE Online Sap The Intellectual Potential Of Humanity? (reddit.com)
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? (nautil.us)
Human Life (complicated.world)
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? (mitpress.mit.edu)
Beware technology that makes us less human (theatlantic.com)
The Collapse Is Coming? Will Humanity Adapt? (mitpress.mit.edu)
What will humans do if technology solves everything? (economist.com)