Instincts evolved with nature and time. Thinking did too but with the coevolution of poor thinking and negative self talk and bad advice within a short period of time.
HN normies are realizing what the right wing have known for years.
Same with crypto people who doe eyedly tout “uncensorability” in their apps. Will you stand up to speech codes and natsec breathinv down your neck? I doubt it.
The end of the day all of this is ultimately either total fork of sovereignty or remaining in the pig pen of walled garden freedom.
It’s anti American but ultimately thats just what it is
Just ignore people like this and continue to build. There is no reasoning or arguing with them. Eventually there will need to be a micro fork of the internet as it is today that is used like freenet, deep, ipfs etc. eventually sovereignty itself will need to be forked. This will need to exist at hardware level as well. Though this will be moot once you REALLLY want that neura link. But expect a fight from gov and alphabets to ban people using alt tech. And expect non kyc wallets and cryptos to be banned. Expect kyc to be needed to even access the internet regardless of your concent or knowledge of your consent. Expect your DNA sequence to also be stored in goog or elsewhere regardless of your consent. The virus has accelerated this process. If you value your speech use alt tech.
Hopefully we don't. But we need to solve dementia which might require a deeper understanding of the connectome. And furthermore, the longer we age the more new diseases we will discover.
By the time we have multi-centenarians there might be whole new types of dementia that could arise.
Perhaps a better question than (do we need AGI) might be, do we need to solve protein folding before we can make meaningful progress. ie should protein folding be considered an ancillary problem or a perquisite for other solutions that must developed on the technology stack to make progress in age research