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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Neaive Optimism in Technology?
I would also say there's kind of naive techno-pessimism. There are critics of technology. I mean, you read the Unibombers Manifesto on why technology can't not result in our self-determination. So we have to take it out before it gets any further. But also, if you read a lot of the extras community, you know, Bostrom and friends, it's like our total number of existential risks and the total probability of them is going up. And so I think that there are, we have to hold together where our positive possibilities and our risk possibilities are both increasing. For the positive possibilities to be realized long-term, all of the
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