Bill Joy "Why the future doesn't need us" https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/amp https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/amp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_The

Bill Joy "Why the future doesn't need us" https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/amp https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/amp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_The_Future_Doesn%27t_Need_Us?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_The_Future_Doesn%27t_Need_... A very famous blog post by Bill Joy on the dangers of rapid technological change. Rather then dismiss fears over exponential tech he takes the claims seriously and tries to reason about them. He even factors anarcho-primitivism into his analysis which is as far away as you can get from Silicon Valley views which he obviously eptimomises being the founder of Sun Microsystems. I love it as its a truly open minded attempt to consider the potential existensial risk of tech and the deep, big picture, philosophical implications of technological progress. It's just so different to what most Silicon Valley luminaries talk about which are often full of certainty about our glorious future. It resonates with me a lot as I often feel like a bit of an outsider as a technologist and software engineer who has the odd sleepless night about where it's all heading. This quote haunts me... "I have always believed that making software more reliable, given its many uses, will make the world a safer and better place; if I were to come to believe the opposite, then I would be morally obligated to stop this work. I can now imagine such a day may come." For me that day has not come but I feel that moral obligation more as I get older so I think I'm on the same page as Bill here.