If your tech optimism doesn’t make room for existential dread, you’re not paying attention.

But if your pessimism doesn’t make room for existential astonishment, you’re missing the plot.

We are apes with code. That’s either terrifying or transcendent. It’s OK if it’s both.

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Skeptical tech optimist, EA aligned, building internet businesses.

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If you have one without the other you’re deluding yourself. 

If one thing has held true over the last 270 years it’s that we’re pretty bad at accurately predicting the future.

There has to be space for mayeutics to exist