If you start connecting the dots – what I call „current developments“ – we are well on our way to a future on steroids. Innovation cycles are poised to speed up at an incredible pace, potentially leaving humans struggling to keep up with the rapid changes.
But what exactly do I mean by „current developments“?
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The „Simulation Argument“ by Nick Bostrom (Link):
Its main argument posits that at least one of the following propositions is true:
- (1) The human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage.
- (2) Any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof).
- (3) We are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.
This argument induces a critical conclusion: The belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor‐simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.
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The paper on „Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior“ (Link):
This research details a virtual environment where 25 AI entities interact both with and against each other, simulating complex human behaviors.
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GPT5 potentially becoming the world’s first AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).