I'm feeling like many of us may not be "just right" for the AGI future, but we'll also be the first to experience it.

I've been bemoaning my lack of quality, feeling like I could have done so much more to be better equipped for the future coming at us. I've been feeling especially inadequate after seeing some of the most brilliant minds on an ML webinar tonight.<br><br>But I had this idea. What if we are the "just right" humans for the AGI future, inasmuch as we are the ones who will have the chance to experience it all for the first time? Maybe it's better that we don't have all the answers. Maybe it's better that there is still room for us to make mistakes and learn from them.<br><br>We've spent years talking about this future, especially the negatives. But all that was just talk. For so long it felt like this waterfall of futures was way off in the distance.<br><br>It's not now. <br><br>I know some have kept the apocalyptic scenarios deep in their minds, but for many of us, the future has often felt so far away that we never really factored it into our day to day.<br><br>Now, I have to admit that I'm getting a little more excited. This is the first time I've felt a waterfall of futures that feel like a positive. Besides many of the good things about these futures, I'm excited because, deep inside, I've always wanted to experience something new, especially what I call an "adventure".<br><br>In many of our media depictions of an AGI future, it's the negatives that we've focused on. We've had a "no end in sight" feeling for so long that many of us have lost feeling like we're on an adventure. I'm definitely guilty of this.<br><br>But sometimes I remind myself of why I'm so drawn to sci-fi. I grew up with Star Trek, and I believed in it. In many ways, I still have that inside me, even if it's all but faded into the background.<br><br>I still love the idea of adventure in space, in the cosmos, and beyond in time. I still have that inside me.<br><br>But we're not sitting in a space shuttle right now. We're sitting in the middle of a Great Transition.<br><br>And I feel like I'm the "just right" human to be inside this transition, to have all the negative feelings that I have, but also to be capable of being excited and curious.<br><br>And I think that's true of all of us. I think many of us have never really felt like we fit perfectly into society. But maybe the real reason we don't fit is because we're meant for a future that doesn't exist yet.<br><br>I've often thought that we may be the last generation of humans inside this transition. What that means, I'm not sure. But I think we have a special role in being a bridge, and in being the first to experience the good things that are coming.<br><br>I know that many of us have never felt like we fit inside our current world. But I think maybe we were meant to not fit. Maybe we were meant to be a bridge. Why? Because we are the ones who will experience, for the first time, these futures we've talked about for so long.<br><br>We are the first of our kind to have this awareness of an approaching Great Transition. We are the first to feel like we've been living just before the waterfall, looking down into the rapids. I definitely feel this way in many moments.<br><br>We are the first of our kind to see the rapids. I often wonder: would our ancestors have done anything differently if they knew what was coming? Some of them did. But they had no conception of the waterfall, or even that we were approaching it.<br><br>I think we are the first generation to see it, to see how close we are. And that's why I think we are all the "just right" humans for this moment.<br><br>And I feel like I'm the "just right" human to be inside this transition, to have all the negative feelings that I have, but also to be capable of being excited and curious.<br><br>And I think that's true of all of us. I think many of us have never really felt like we fit perfectly inside society. But maybe the real reason we don't fit is because we're meant for a future that doesn't exist yet.<br><br>I grew up with Star Trek, and I believed in it. I believed that all of us could come together and make a better world. I believed in the idea of a utopia. I believed that, even when we failed, we could always try to do better than the past. And I still believe in that, even though I've lost that innocence.<br><br>I still have that inside me, and I think that's true of all of us. Maybe many of us just lost our innocence. Maybe many of us have never really felt like we fit inside society because we're meant for a future that doesn't exist yet.