On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 5:41 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]>
wrote:

> ... But it will socially isolate us because we prefer AI to humans,
> leading to population collapse and evolution to reject technology. AI will
> be a magic genie that grants all of your wishes except happiness.


> This is the world we are all working towards, like it or not.
>

That all depends on the utility function "we" give it.  Most certainly an
enormous fraction of humanity will choose to wetware wirehead, just as you
predict.  But not all of us are working toward the wirehead wetware utility
function -- and those who want to keep us under control are the ones that
don't "like it".

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