According to Paul Krugman in today's NYT, the economy is doing better than almost everyone is giving it credit for, but meanwhile, if you ask how they are doing, most people say they are happy with their own situation. It's some other guy who must be feeling the pain of economic dislocation.
In another article on AGI or artificial general intelligence, some people are quoted as saying true AGI is here, while others claim it is a chimera and will probably never be attained. Attitude and perception, filtered through a welter of human prejudices define how we look at and try to make sense of the world.
Our views on the economy are in large part influenced by our political leanings instead of the actual data. Similarly, the AGI researchers are influenced by their prejudices regarding the superiority of our monkey brains as opposed to machine intelligence. As my old mentor, Jerry Shulman said regarding a customer, " He's mad at a nickel because it's not a dime".
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