But the light bulb will not screw itself 🤷‍♂️

a lot of the Enlightenment 'ideals' are revisionist history and probably contribute to our contemporary decline, good thread:

Here's why we shouldn't give up on enlightenment values even in the face of big existential risks forum.effectivealtruism.org/…

There will always be people who aren’t satisfied with the status quo. Because of that, our society will continue to advance.

Values need to be expressed in the structures of a society: directionstopurpose.substack…

I think if peasants had access to Twitter/social media to air their grievances with the nobility, they would probably be speaking similarly re: quality of life. It’s almost like nobles built a system for only a few to profit and the rest to fall in line🤔

(vulture capitalists are not enlightened)

And as long as we can re-align private incentives under capitalism to solve co-ordination problems and generate public goods to accelerate technological progress in harmony with environment while addressing existential risk (e.g. by using Impact Markets / Prizes) #DeSci #ReFi

This implies you’re pretty optimistic about AGI foom timelines, right?

Perfect example of when the content is more profound than the header. This really HIT me! Thanks for sharing :) To infinite progress…