François CholletVerified account

You don't hold that much of a high regard for society's abilities to cope with change it seems

Are we entering something similar to middle ages,but idea of god is replace with algorithms. We study work of algorithm (like with alphazero). We only follow "wisdom" of algorithms.

Hard Fact: Whenever something wide scope new comes along it is abused widely until laws are created to suppress the abuse. For the law makers don't know till after the fact what laws to create. From the wild west to cryptocurrency there are many examples.

You are certainly right in politics and that is not a compliment to the masses, people get lazy & worship tribe over Truth, sigh

Case in point the Ten Commandments, they were not meant to be a definitive list, it was meant as a beginning, not an end all, the concept of rules to govern moral behavior, the genesis of Law, but as usual Man became lazy & misinterpreted the purpose, your point

Unintended consequences, right? Remember Asimov's three rules of robotics? One of them was, "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." Sounds good, but this would eliminate sports, eliminate surgery, eliminate adventure.