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Y’all just got rekt lmao https://graymirror.substack.com/p/a-techno-pessimist-manifesto

I suppose it was necessary to read the whole thing.

but this could have been a "you didn't think about resource curse in  Africa, & impending social collapse" tweet. in fact, it effectively avoided anything to do with mundane economy or demographic shifting to handle scarcity of order or natural constraints.

𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖆𝖉 𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖆

what noo it was a super real take. It‘s not Curtis‘s fault that y‘all are delusional about tech‘s potential. Makes total sense to point out the most problematic part of the tech stack, the dumbass user

everyone believes their own intuition. sometimes, our intuition is sensational & bigger than life. what I read was a derision of other people, other places, & complete lack of sober appreciation for the arc of tech & civilization, as chaotic as it was, to our present capability. also, trotsky?

dude is so enamored with a monarchy & so disgusted with liberalism, he can't even bring himself to describe common enterprises like launching spacecraft or building Internet infra. 

"aristocratic thymos" needs its ivory tower

But e.g. some criticism is that technology is not the determining factor but culture

a crticism can be made, not this one though. I think the point about resource curse is unsettling & unstable, much like "golden ages", but this criticisn does mostly a "eww, yuck" number. it would be great to delve into the details of the transitions between order & chaos w/ tech as a catalyst. but it is inconsistent.

yeah but the same criticism can be made for @pmarca or not?