A new version of rationalism is required as a counterweight to the traditional doomers or accelerationists.
No longer can the public perception of technology, culture, and ideas be restricted to the revolutionaries and conservatives. These lines have also become blurred in recent years.
The best example of this is the development of AI: the optimal path forward is not one in which the risk of a superior race of AI overlords rules us because of unrestricted development, nor one where the technology becomes concentrated in the hands of the powers that be.
A new version of rationalism is required as a counterweight to the traditional doomers or accelerationists.
No longer can the public perception of technology, culture, and ideas be restricted to the revolutionaries and conservatives. These lines have also become blurred in recent years.
The best example of this is the development of AI: the optimal path forward is not one in which the risk of a superior race of AI overlords rules us because of unrestricted development, nor one where the technology becomes concentrated in the hands of the powers that be.