Readers might debunk this post by explaining how we will successfully manage the ever more, ever larger powers which will emerge from an accelerating knowledge explosion at an ever faster pace, seemingly without limit. Debunkers might explain how we will accomplish this for every single existential threat which may emerge, without failing even once.
This is what a focus on particular emerging threats entails, the assumption that we will be able to defeat all such threats, no matter how many, how large, or how fast they may arrive. This is what an unwillingness to focus on the machinery generating all the threats entails. Very dangerous irrationality.
Readers might debunk this post by explaining how we will successfully manage the ever more, ever larger powers which will emerge from an accelerating knowledge explosion at an ever faster pace, seemingly without limit. Debunkers might explain how we will accomplish this for every single existential threat which may emerge, without failing even once.
This is what a focus on particular emerging threats entails, the assumption that we will be able to defeat all such threats, no matter how many, how large, or how fast they may arrive. This is what an unwillingness to focus on the machinery generating all the threats entails. Very dangerous irrationality.