Whenever a politician wants you to think of the children, you should be alert. What we see Danish politicians push for is the same we see in England. I don't think Danish politicians are acting on their own, it is much more likely that this is a push from EU.

We see similar attacks on personal freedom with the new GDPR updates: https://noyb.eu/en/eu-commission-about-wreck-core-principles...

In 2019, I read "AI-Superpowers" by Kai-Fu Lee, where he went through most of the worries we have today. In the final chapters however, he started talking more about how we, as humans, need to adapt, and he also mentioned UBI as a (possible) way forward.

At some point, AI indeed will "replace" what people like you (and me, who has pretty much the same background as you) do. We are just tools that knows how to code.

Quite a big part of my time, as part of a large development team, consists of fixing bugs. I believe AI in the near future will be able to solve those, based on input and expectations. Someone still needs to verify the code, and take responsibility for the changes, before they're released to production. This is where I think developers will be needed. I don't think you'll ever find a PO so frisky as to just release it, unless for maybe very small domains.

But.. we'll all get hit. And the way I see it, developers are not in the direct line of fire.

I hope UBI will never actually happen, even though they're testing it out several places in the world recently. I also hope a One World Government will never happen, even though it looks like we're heading for it. I also hope WHO, UN and NATO will not gain the power they seem to strive for, but I don't see much resistance.

Instead.. what I do personally, which might be a solution for you also, is to try to embrace it. These years are quite unique in the history of the human kind. It's a mixture of 1984, Terminator 2, Ex Machina and more. I have a bad feeling about it all, but at the same time I'm curious, and still have hope. But also, I'll try to resist the sinister parts of it whenever I get the chance.

Scifi just became real, and I don’t like it.

In many ways GPT-4 does a better impression of a human than any we have seen in Star Trek. Data couldn’t understand humor.

We were so sure of our own complexity, we projected onto the AI characters weaknesses. Then an AI comes up doing jokes in any topic you throw at it in any way you like.

Yet still some suggest I must be trolling with my post. I know my take is quite pessimistic but far from exaggeration, I didn’t even get as far as suggesting any SciFi level dangers in longer term.

Telegram, to find the stories the mainstream media avoids until it's no longer avoidable. Basically gives me the news months in advance, without all the bs. Remember when all the mainstream media wrote it was safe and effective, made you immune, and prevented spread? The real experts were blocked and banned from most places but Telegram, so that's where they went. And only lately has the mainstream media started to write about it. Remember when all the mainstream media wrote that the war would last only a few weeks? Remember when they wrote Russia was losing? Remember when they wrote, and still write, that the economy is only seeing a temporary setback, and will bounce back, even though banks are crashing? Yeah, no thanks, I prefer the truth rather than propaganda.

> Remember when they wrote Russia was losing?

In what Telegram channel is Russia not losing?

That's the one topic you chose to pick from my list? Well, my point was simply that mainstream media, from more or less day one of the war, have written why Russia is close to losing the war. Yet they're still in Ukraine. We rarely, if ever, hear how Ukraine is losing the war, yet the premise is more or less the same.