My project of putting together a complete picture of where AI takes us

Hello fellow redditors!

I’ve been quietly working on this project I call Shades of Singularity for about a year, and this is the first time I’m sharing it with anyone.

The goal was selfish at first: I kept reading good pieces on AI’s impact on work, or truth, or power, or cognition, but never one place that pulled all of it together, and rarely by writers who weren’t serving their own agenda.

So I tried to build that place. I started with scenarios (“Shades”) branching from the present, each focused on a specific angle. From there, six long essays emerged, covering work, truth, power, cognition, inheritance, and governance. Something as exhaustive and as traversal as I could make it, so you can read across the whole space or zoom in on whichever slice interests you most.

Fair warning on the length. The long essays run 4,000 to 15,000 words each, fully footnoted. I know that’s a lot to ask of a stranger on the internet, so every long essay has a short companion piece (~1,500 words, no footnotes) meant as a way in. Read the shorts first, and if you feel courageous, go deeper on whichever pulls you.

https://shadesofsingularity.com

I’d really like this sub’s feedback. Where’s the reasoning weak, what am I missing, where am I too confident.

Thank you for your patience, and feel free to share with anyone you think would be interested.

B.E.N.