Ask HN: How to live life before AGI

A Hacker News user questioned the purpose of career and life planning, arguing that artificial intelligence will surpass human capabilities in all domains within one to three years. The user suggested that only extreme hedonism or aggressive capital accumulation are rational responses, dismissing all middle-ground efforts as pointless. The post challenged skeptics to provide evidence that AI improvement trends will plateau, rather than assuming continuity with the past.

I feel like it's pointless to worry about the future if the future is highly speculative, but it seems more and more certain that AI will eclipse humans in every domain outright soonish 1-3 years . As a consequence, it seems pointless to work at a job. The local optima are either hedonism-maxxing or capital-maxxing, any middle ground seems like a foolish enterprise when all that effort over marginal returns won't matter soon. NOTE: If you disagree with this premise, please provide actual evidence that the trends in improvement in AI models will not continue, and will peak at Mythos level somehow. Do not just assume that things will remain the same despite that not having been the case for the last few years. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302203 Points: 1 Comments: 3