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Ultimately, all the techno optimists are out there living great lives and all the pessimists are on the internet lamenting the breakdown of culture and the lone
by renewiltord 3y ago
Ultimately, all the techno optimists are out there living great lives and all the pessimists are on the internet lamenting the breakdown of culture and the loneliness epidemic and shit like that. Choose your path by seeing how people turn out. The world is better because one group modified it and the other group is just there as a moaner brigade. Everyone knows it.
- meheleventyone 3y agoExcept it’s not a dichotomy like that, there are more strands than just optimistic and pessimistic, and different ways of approaching those topics. Further people may be more or less optimistic about different areas of technology. And that’s without considering views outside of technology! So trying to draw correlation between potential for success and opinion seems prone to give incorrect results. Likewise the characterisation also seems more like a safety blanket against criticism then a sensible way to consider the world.
- malermeister 3y agoHave you considered it might be the other way around? The people that things happened to work out for now feel optimistic out of survivorship bias?