Honestly, what keeps me awake at night isn’t just AI or the economy…it’s the thought that we might forget our humanity in the rush towards the future...
I’ve always believed art is a mirror it reflects who we are, but also who we could become. Every time a world-changing force appears (AI included), we’re given two brushes one that can paint beauty, empathy, and connection… and one that can paint fear, division, and loss. The danger is not the brush itself, but the hand that wields it...
Life is too short to worry about things outside of your sphere of influence.
The only things I lose sleep over are within my sphere of control and influence and its rare. My faith is the biggest reason I sleep well but really it's pointless to worry.
Health of family troubles me on occasion but for the most part I usually sleep fairly well.
If I can't sleep it is usually because I crashed on the couch watching something late at night and woke up realizing I hadn't taken my dog out for her last pee and by the time I do that I am wide awake for the next few hours.
I worry most about the economy because it's the cause of global conflict and all the AI desperation. But there's also not much to be done about the economy - imho this is inevitable given its structure.
I sleep like a baby, anxiety is just an instinct telling you that there's something within your circle of control you're abdicating... fixation over anything outside of your circle of control is just a distraction from that.
Techno-feudalism might be the closest thing I can think of relating to your concerns, but that's why Bitcoin is smack in the middle of my IKIGAI... it's very existence is a firewall against the situation the serfs of Tsarist Russia endured, a "permanent underclass"