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#348 - Daniel Schmachtenberger - Building Better Sensemaking
Modern Wisdom
The Luddite View of the Techno Pessimist
The idea that the faster we build the stuff the better everything will get is an extraordinarily dangerous view. The techno pessimist who says we have always been bad stewards of power has no power to do anything right, he argues. "It's not a given that that tech is good it could be developed in ways that are positive but it can also like if Facebook wasn't developed with a time on site maximizing algorithm it could be a very different force" If I make a plow and other people don't use it then I'm just going to lose as far as making it through famines or having stuff to trade so I have to use the plow as soon as it exists pretty muchright
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