When I read Citrini Research’s piece on Substack this past Sunday, the one titled “The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis,” I felt something I have learned to distrust in myself.
I read this post a few times and thought about the concept of the frog in the pot. When the temperature gets warmer, studies show the frog does seek to leap from the pot but the questions isn’t whether or not it feels pain or becomes uncomfortable before it chooses to leap. It is more about the fact that either way, it is stuck in the pot and it will suffer death. It was always in the pot and it was always doomed and there wasn’t anything but its relative awareness that was in question. If the same holds true for us, it is about time and our understanding of where we are in the cycle of being boiled. I have to say, unless human beings discover a method of time displacement or control, we are all frogs in the pot and all of humanity is a frog in the pot, boiling or not it doesn’t matter, it will come to an end. Instead of inflicting suffering and self pain in the limited number of days we have left both as individual human beings and as a body of semi intelligent organisms, we may consider, enjoying a beautiful sunset on the days we have them. That said, we can worry about AI and understand the sun will also explode and leave the planet dead. The AI may survive, but we would not regardless. We are only here for a moment.. we need to keep our eyes on days of peace and joy.
I'm not sure I'm with you on the idea that we are just passive frogs in a pot facing an inevitable end like the sun exploding
The difference between the sun exploding and AI is human agency
We actually have the power to engineer a prohuman agenda that uses AI to elevate us rather than replace us. If we accept that we are doomed, we give up our power to fight for the legal protections and rights that will preserve humanity. We should definitely enjoy the sunset, but we also need to wake up and turn off the stove…
I love that we can have this conversation. I think it is important. The last few years starting in 2020 taught me all I needed to know about humanity. There are things as a body we can do but we choose not to do. When Elon decided to put Starlink in the sky, you had no choice. When Covid hit and the logical action to takeoff was to close down travel and isolate, people chose not to do it. AI is no different than this. When someone NOT YOU makes a decision to do something that has an impact on you and you have NO choice and NO control other than to write about it, you must come to realize that you are absolutely in control of yourself but nothing else. You are literally observing the temperature of the pot from the inside. There is nothing you can say or write that will stop Sam or any of the other mad people from doing what they want. Can you control yourself? Sure, but this changes nothing on spaceship earth. You are a passenger unless you somehow you make your way into the drivers seat.
While an isolated individual might not be able to stop narcissistic billionaires from destroying humanity as we know it, can't society as a collective body grab the steering wheel? How does that happen if individuals give in to powerlessness?
I read this post a few times and thought about the concept of the frog in the pot. When the temperature gets warmer, studies show the frog does seek to leap from the pot but the questions isn’t whether or not it feels pain or becomes uncomfortable before it chooses to leap. It is more about the fact that either way, it is stuck in the pot and it will suffer death. It was always in the pot and it was always doomed and there wasn’t anything but its relative awareness that was in question. If the same holds true for us, it is about time and our understanding of where we are in the cycle of being boiled. I have to say, unless human beings discover a method of time displacement or control, we are all frogs in the pot and all of humanity is a frog in the pot, boiling or not it doesn’t matter, it will come to an end. Instead of inflicting suffering and self pain in the limited number of days we have left both as individual human beings and as a body of semi intelligent organisms, we may consider, enjoying a beautiful sunset on the days we have them. That said, we can worry about AI and understand the sun will also explode and leave the planet dead. The AI may survive, but we would not regardless. We are only here for a moment.. we need to keep our eyes on days of peace and joy.
I'm not sure I'm with you on the idea that we are just passive frogs in a pot facing an inevitable end like the sun exploding
The difference between the sun exploding and AI is human agency
We actually have the power to engineer a prohuman agenda that uses AI to elevate us rather than replace us. If we accept that we are doomed, we give up our power to fight for the legal protections and rights that will preserve humanity. We should definitely enjoy the sunset, but we also need to wake up and turn off the stove…
Let the games begin https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/02/26/block-laying-off-about-4000-employees-nearly-half-of-its-workforce.html
I love that we can have this conversation. I think it is important. The last few years starting in 2020 taught me all I needed to know about humanity. There are things as a body we can do but we choose not to do. When Elon decided to put Starlink in the sky, you had no choice. When Covid hit and the logical action to takeoff was to close down travel and isolate, people chose not to do it. AI is no different than this. When someone NOT YOU makes a decision to do something that has an impact on you and you have NO choice and NO control other than to write about it, you must come to realize that you are absolutely in control of yourself but nothing else. You are literally observing the temperature of the pot from the inside. There is nothing you can say or write that will stop Sam or any of the other mad people from doing what they want. Can you control yourself? Sure, but this changes nothing on spaceship earth. You are a passenger unless you somehow you make your way into the drivers seat.
While an isolated individual might not be able to stop narcissistic billionaires from destroying humanity as we know it, can't society as a collective body grab the steering wheel? How does that happen if individuals give in to powerlessness?
Giving in isn’t “the method” understand what you can and can’t do and find your way around the system //
Ah, that makes sense more since to me…