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Comments - Techno-optimism for 2023 - by Noah Smith

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What you should be excited about

As someone of a like mind I'll try and provide some insight into that style of thinking, which isn't really "conservative" so much as the default for people outside a very specific form of techno-utopian thinking. I believe it comes from a couple of places. One is pattern matching. If you look at the history of ideas people a.k.a. intellectualism, it's noticeable how frequently there are predictions of some enormous world-shaking crisis which cannot be perceived with your senses, but instead is justified via indefinite extrapolation of very small/short term trends. Invariably, the framing…

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