I don't find it that astonishing. People who see progress and technology as ends to themselves, and inherently good, have an entwined faith that technology wil

I don't find it that astonishing. People who see progress and technology as ends to themselves, and inherently good, have an entwined faith that technology will solve all our problems. (Which, at a fundamental level, technology caused in the first place - you can't argue that even if you also can't argue with the rise in standard of living from cavemen days.) The idea that we might destroy ourselves with AI is talked about with a cool calmness, as though it is the natural progression of things, pun intended. But the idea that we might fail to usurp ourselves because we run out of livable planet on which to stage the usurping is unfathomable to this crowd, and somehow more horrifying than the dystopias they blithely discuss.