> I’ll continue to enjoy human art because it speaks of the lived experience of another human.
In this world we're working towards, where the AI companies succeed at building the AI they want, the only way you'd know is that it's worse quality and less interesting. It's still possible that AI fails, of course. But that's an awfully big bet to place.
> Now wait until we meet extraterrestrials. That’ll be another notch. Earth isn’t even special. Life isn’t even special. There’s probably a trillion biospheres at least.
Yes, but they're likely to be too busy doing their own thing to undermine the economics that allow for human creativity. "Special" is a red herring. Being able to sustain humans doing the things that make us human is what AI puts at risk.
Basically: If AI companies succeed, things like education become useless (outside of entertainment purposes), because AI will just let us externalize all of that kind of stuff. If we meet aliens, we'll still need education and creativity because the aliens are unlikely to insert themselves into our economic and social systems.