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Kennybob12 t1_j9wqd3m wrote

Reply to comment by Sandbar101 in People lack imagination and it’s really bothering me by thecoffeejesus

I'd like to add that it's not that they are right about most humans scope of understanding, because 90% dont even understand the internet, it's that they refuse to. This is a threat to every way of life that most know, whether they acknowledge it or not. This is form of fear based refusal because no one has been taught how to understand outside their means. One would argue that even this case can be applied to us because while we are excited, there is plenty of space to worry about what this impacts for the singular.

We dont know how to stop, change, or even combat what this will become. Your most basic sense of survival is threatened, and only so many thought experiments will comfort one's mind. We can say we understand even to the nth degree, but we only can form in our mind what we are comfortable with.

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Sandbar101 t1_j9wv37a wrote

Very well said and exceedingly accurate

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thecoffeejesus OP t1_j9xocuk wrote

I agree, and I want to add that it’s the idea that we just fundamentally can’t really grasp what could happen, the scale or the speed, that means that this thing is so wildly, uncontrollable that it’s kind of overwhelming.

Because I think of it like this:

With the technology that we have today, a kid, 10 years from now, will be able to create stuff on their mobile phone in a similar way that we can emulate an Xbox on the iPhone and play games like Halo.

But EXPONENTIALLY more powerful.

Yes, I know there’s limits.

But we don’t know what those limits are.

We just can’t.

It’s like a grasshopper trying to understand an airplane.

They both fly, but in a completely different way.

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