My partner and I met on okcupid where one of the "match" questions is "Would you rather live in good times or interesting times?" Just about everyone (including him) answered "interesting times" and I had posted a little comment on it saying something along the lines of "I feel like people are not actually thinking through the implications of this."

Now whenever something "interesting" but shitty happens (see: the pandemic) I say, "remember when everyone on okcupid said they'd rather live through 'interesting' times...?" I'd prefer to just read about it in the history books.

[–] TheGayDude@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dude, none of these are gonna be considered "major." If you were to travel to the year 2500 and asked people about COVID-19 or the war in Ukraine, only huge history nerds would have any idea of what you're talking about

[–] chisoph@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think that the first AGI, which will probably be this decade, will be considered a major historical event by 2500, just like how we still consider the invention of the printing press a major historical event.

If the Ukraine war ends up escalating into WW3, I think that will count as well, unless we get up to like WWX.

If David Grusch is right, I think disclosure would make that list.

[–] bulbasaur@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Extreme doubt about AGI being developed anytime soon. It's a moral panic stirred up by billionaires to inflate their new tech bubble

[–] InfiniteVariables@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Accidently used the downvote button as a disagree button but I undid it and am leaving this comment instead. I personally think agi is uncomfortably close to the horizon. A lot about our lives is going to fundamentally change very quickly IMO.

[–] Sergigig@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Joined 2 days ago

Or you're about politics or AI or just progress in general

[–] rockstarashes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hot take. Would you really disagree that things have been fucked for the last 3+ years? Regarding "progress in general," at this point, it doesn't even feel like we're moving in the right direction in many ways unless you're a Christian billionaire.

[–] Ansis100@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that's basically what I was thinking. The world's starting to feel more & more chaotic with good things turning bad. Climate is fucked, political tensions are high, rogue technology is active everywhere (I don't even mean AI, just bots and privacy in general), people in power are taking rights away from women (and I don't just mean third world countries, America) etc.