Thanks. It's just funny, I literally spent thousands of hours with this problem over the last two decades, it helped me through some tough times. I'll never quite be able to think about it in the same way again. It was never much more than a hobby for me after I left mathematics as a career but it was something I took seriously for years.

I am not demotivated though, I have a great consumer privacy product coming out soon that I'm very excited about.

I have this fear too, demotivating individuals with high potential.

But I have an existential dread about it… I don’t see how it cannot, at least in the vast majority of cases. It seems like a grim new reality is emerging where humans can’t contribute any more, and beyond that being incredibly depressing, I also don’t see it playing out well for human relations.

I’d personally much rather risk dying of cancer or facing whatever other fate may await me that these AI labs allege they will fix (with zero evidence yet) than to risk whatever dystopian anti-human future this technology may very well produce. I’d rather my kids have a shot at something, and be guaranteed to die eventually, than to risk them being hopeless in a severely disordered world with a far off promise that they’ll live forever

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