I recently convinced myself to be fairly technopessimistic in the short term (at least relative to some people I talk to in EA, unclear how this compares to e.g. online EAs or the population overall), though it’s not a very exciting position and I don’t know if I should prioritize writing up this argument over other things I can do that’s productive.
Can you give examples of technopessimists “in the wild”? I’m sure there are plenty of examples of “folk technopessimism” but if you mean something more fleshed-out than that I don’t think I’ve seen it expressed or argued for a lot. (That said, I’m not very widely-read, so I’m sure there’s lots of stuff out there I don’t hear about.)
I recently convinced myself to be fairly technopessimistic in the short term (at least relative to some people I talk to in EA, unclear how this compares to e.g. online EAs or the population overall), though it’s not a very exciting position and I don’t know if I should prioritize writing up this argument over other things I can do that’s productive.
Can you give examples of technopessimists “in the wild”? I’m sure there are plenty of examples of “folk technopessimism” but if you mean something more fleshed-out than that I don’t think I’ve seen it expressed or argued for a lot. (That said, I’m not very widely-read, so I’m sure there’s lots of stuff out there I don’t hear about.)