Comment on The Techno-Optimist ManifestoComments−throwaway92742yThis is not optimistic about advancing technology for the purposes of bettering the human condition. So the title is a bit misleading.Words have meanings and we should adhere to them so communication does not break down into rhetoric.It focuses on the social circumstances, or “human systems” for which it recommends re-engineering human societies to achieve a variety of goals.It advocates for non-market economic systems, of which the only currently extant examples we have are socialist.It advocates for slowing technological development to ease unspecified existential risks.It offers that engineers can essentially make an inevitable societal decline a little bit less bad.As much as Marc’s essay was a caricature of a considered techno-optimist position, this is the caricature of the inverse.
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This is not optimistic about advancing technology for the purposes of bettering the human condition. So the title is a bit misleading.
Words have meanings and we should adhere to them so communication does not break down into rhetoric.
It focuses on the social circumstances, or “human systems” for which it recommends re-engineering human societies to achieve a variety of goals.
It advocates for non-market economic systems, of which the only currently extant examples we have are socialist.
It advocates for slowing technological development to ease unspecified existential risks.
It offers that engineers can essentially make an inevitable societal decline a little bit less bad.
As much as Marc’s essay was a caricature of a considered techno-optimist position, this is the caricature of the inverse.