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A humanist critique of technological determinism | ilija lichkovski

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The future is unsolved.

The founders of automation startup Mechanize published a blogpost arguing in favor of the view that “the tech tree is discovered, not forged”: _Humanity is often imagined to be like a ship captain, with the ability to chart our course, navigate away from storms, and select our destination. Yet this view is wrong. To a first approximation, the future course of civilization has already been fixed, predetermined by hard physical constraints combined with unavoidable economic incentives. Whether we like it or not, humanity will develop roughly the same technologies, in roughly the same order, in r

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