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That’s the part of tech optimism that I find the most grating: the sense in which optimism is treated as an ideological commitment. It suffuses the old issues of WIRED magazine with a confident swagger that, all these years later, feels decidedly unearned.
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Yes, exactly. There are a couple of ways to think about this. One is that superintelligence could be really important because it could facilitate the realization of the TESCREAL vision of the future. TESCREALists tend to think of everything as an engineering problem. So the reasoning is that if we have a superintelligence, then we have a super-engineer. If we have a super-engineer, then we can engineer paradise, which is a term that they literally use.
Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally.
jacobin.com
Niles Eldredge is the cofounder (with Stephen Jay Gould) of the theory of punctuated, stepwise evolution.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
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