>Many people here do not lead content lives, so they turn to AI and other technologies as the thing that's going to save them (which I find quite sad, to be honest).

You are right, the poor people want AI save them, but the other poor people just use another entertainment method to satisfy them, the singularity's advantage is it can be true.
You point is wrong is some way, the most impatient people is not the poor man, it's the dying man, like Ray Kurzweils, Warren Buffett, they just not to say it, haha.
I don't care about AI ruining human, I dislike human, I like AI.