and the future is bright

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman published a blog post today stating that the world will have superintelligence in “a few thousand days” and what he sees ahead is not the techno-dystopia some critics see but “massive prosperity.” Altman’s post was only a few hundred words long, but he managed to pack it with enough assertions about the future to fill a few hundred counter-argument books. He admitted that the arrival of superintelligence might take a tad longer than he expects, but it’s coming, he says, and we’ll soon “be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to…