Comment on AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvementparentComments−stdatomic4hI mean, aren't a lot of sci-fi authors' predictions coming true? It might not be exactly the same as they predicted, but we're heading there.−timr4hRead more sci-fi. The dystopian takes are not the only ones. They're not even the majority.Pick up an Asimov book in the Robot series, or any number of novels written by lesser authors in the 1950s. Fiction reflects broader societal anxieties.
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I mean, aren't a lot of sci-fi authors' predictions coming true? It might not be exactly the same as they predicted, but we're heading there.
Read more sci-fi. The dystopian takes are not the only ones. They're not even the majority.
Pick up an Asimov book in the Robot series, or any number of novels written by lesser authors in the 1950s. Fiction reflects broader societal anxieties.