Techno-cynics are usually only ostensibly in favor of liberal Democratic values - their cynicism is often rooted in a broad sense of contempt for average people, leading to a latent if not often disclosed belief in the virtues of autocracy by experts.

Studying history should really make us all liberal techno-optimists! Not much more than a century ago most families had numerous children hoping that a few of them would make it to adulthood. Today child mortality is less than 3%! That's just one data point of hundreds

The great philosopher Bob Dylan said “when you ain’t got nothin, you got nothing to lose” - yes we need people with a lot to lose to stand up and be counted - good point Sam

It's funny that your haters don't want to see you even trying

Yeah I think it's hard to find both.. haha.. I'm willing to fight, but I'm not an optimist..

I am both. I don't feel needed

Where do I sign up?

En sintonía con ambas. Que viva la libertad y la democracia.

LOL who is that? I don't know many of those people. Do I know any?

Most people stand for liberal/democratic values but certainly a lot of them don't know about converging technologies. Although that seems to be changing thanks to the extraordinary advances in AI this year. Let's keep going.