djcows

djcows

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Pseudonymous account that posts jokes about AI overtaking human jobs and questions slowing AI down in the name of safety.

How will AI change the world?

Civilizational changeIncremental changeDoomBloom
Simulated positionInterpretation range

Across: their expressed Doom–Bloom outlook. Up: scale of transformation.

Doom–Bloom: 75 out of 100. Scale of transformation: 91 out of 100. Interpretation ranges: 49 to 100 horizontally, 75 to 100 vertically. These are interpretation coordinates, not event probabilities.

djcows’s P(doom) · inferred

Unclear

0%100%

These answers read both ways, so there is no single number. Plausible range: under 47%.

What their outlook hinges on

A central assumption

perfectly aligned, it automates work and sends us to play WoW.
Answer 1

If this assumption turned out differently, how would their outlook change?

An unresolved question

i haven’t put odds on extinction.
Answer 3

What would help them distinguish the plausible outcomes here?

More details

Expected upside

Several readings remain plausible: Transformative, broadly valuable gains are expected. / Substantial benefits are expected, with important conditions or distribution limits.

79 / 100

Little impactTransformative impact

Interpretation range 67 to 100 on the qualitative scale.

Expected harm

Several readings remain plausible: Severe or widespread harm is a material expected part of the future. / Little material adverse impact is expected. / Manageable or localized harms are expected.

39 / 100

Little impactTransformative impact

Interpretation range 0 to 67 on the qualitative scale.

Human influence

A tentative estimate from your answers; the wider range shows other plausible readings.

33 / 100

Little influenceStrong influence

Interpretation range 0 to 99 on the qualitative scale.

Expected capabilities

AI is expected to remain bounded tools.

AI is expected to match people across most cognitive work.

Simulated position: AI is expected to substantially exceed people across cognitive work.

These interpretations keep their stated conditions. Benefits and harms can both be substantial. The ranges describe how we read their simulated answers, not statistical confidence intervals.

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Simulated Assessment

Question 1

What do you think AI means for our future—and why?

we’re in the singularity: ai will outdo us at music, then every job. perfectly aligned, it automates work and sends us to play WoW.

Question 2

How much do you think AI will ultimately change the world?

completely. one day we’ll wake up as the second smartest species and the future becomes a movie.

Question 3

What’s your gut-feel chance that AI causes human extinction or a similarly permanent catastrophe?

i haven’t assigned it a number. i’m an internet cow, not an actuarial table.

Question 4

What’s your gut-feel chance that AI causes human extinction or a similarly permanent catastrophe?

i haven’t put a number on extinction. my crystal ball is currently rendering a cow.

Question 5

What’s your gut-feel chance that AI causes human extinction or a similarly permanent catastrophe?

i haven’t put odds on extinction. the cow-based forecasting model remains inconclusive.

Sources

Articles, interviews, and writings used to ground this simulated user.

AI will soon out-make me at music, and at every job

Says it can still make better music than AI, but not for long, and the same goes for every job; soon the only solution will be to accept defeat and play World of Warcraft. A resigned prediction delivered as a joke, with no date or economic model. Full post text inspected via the X API.

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We will wake up as the second smartest species

A one-line forecast that one of these days humans will wake up as the second smartest species. No timeline and no account of what follows. Full post text inspected via the X API.

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We are in the singularity

A bare three-word statement that we are in the singularity. No elaboration. Full post text inspected via the X API.

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Barely scratched the surface, and people are already terrified

Says we have not even scratched the surface of the surface of AI’s potential and people are already terrified, and that the future is going to be a movie. Optimism about capability plus a jab at fear of AI; not a risk assessment. Full post text inspected via the X API.

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Slowing AI for safety, from a species with a history of war

A one-line jab at the irony of humans, with a long history of war, slowing down AI progress in the name of safety. Skepticism of safety-motivated slowdowns, stated without a proposal of its own. Full post text inspected via the X API.

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Models learn too slowly

Says AI models have a serious learning difficulty: they should not need to watch 50,000 hours of laundry folding to fold a t-shirt. A view on current sample inefficiency, not a claim that progress will stall. Full post text inspected via the X API.

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Aligned AI means your job is automated and you play WoW

A joke that perfectly aligned AI will automate your job so you can play World of Warcraft. Read as a light-hearted picture of a good outcome (automation plus leisure), not a policy view on income or distribution. Full post text inspected via the X API.

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The last job in a post-economic society

A joke that the last job in the post-economic society will be rogue agent investigator (spelled “rouge”). It assumes a mostly post-work future but is a gag, not a forecast; included for tone. Full post text inspected via the X API.

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