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Is This Different From the Industrial Revolution? The Last Invention Argument
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Yampolskiy argued that creating artificial general intelligence is unique because it produces a new inventor, capable of making all future inventions itself.
Fire was transformative. The wheel was transformative. But they stopped there — they couldn't invent new things. AI is an inventor that builds new inventors. Once it arrives, humanity's role in the process of discovery ends.
Yampolskiy sleeps fine even though he believes humanity may be near an extinction-level event. This isn't denial — it's evolution. The ancestors who worried too much about death didn't survive long enough to reproduce.
