Any comment from an experienced person to an inexperienced one can be categorized as patronizing. (Including this one.)
So sure, if you want to fret about the future, if you want to be anxious about hypothetical things like singularities or super-AIs or whatever, then go for it. Whatever makes you happy.
All I'm suggesting is that this path is not particularly unique. I've lived through the cold war. Through the moral panic of the 80s and 90s with the emergence of personal computers. Through cell phones. Through Y2K.
Yes, this is different. But it's also exactly the same. Forgive me for being sanguine. The future, whatever it is is coming. Will worrying about it add a single day to your life?
If you want to change the trajectory of the future, then I recommend running for public office. Perhaps others will follow you.
The genie though is out of the bottle. It cannot be put back.
(For what it's worth, I don't think a big statistics machine will end civilization. )
