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It’s weird how everyone is having big apprehensive reaction about a technology that changes the nature of humanity

This has gotten missed a couple times so just to make this clear: it's not weird how everyone is apprehensive about this. It's the exact right reaction

We use the term futureshock in my friendgroup to describe the bottomless disorientation that we experience when we see these things do something new that didn't previously seem possible. I'll probably never forget the first time I loaded up claude code.

This is a new kind of disorientation though? I am sure people were futureshocked when flight first happened, or they learned that there had been people on the moon. But this is different. Like meeting aliens or something.

Interesting question where it ranks compared to the moon flight. I have read people describing what sounds like futureshock when that happened

It’s a scale for sure. Seeing a Space Shuttle in a museum was a futureshock for me

I don’t know if this counts…but Terminator 2 was a future shock for me…still is, as Ai progresses and no one is certain humans can control it.

The first Terminator movie was kind of perfect in how simple it made quite a profound prediction.

There is still time 😜

Well…if you see someone looking like a T-800 or T-1000 run like hell

That's nothing compared to my novel strategy of being nice to it