Water Above the Ocean - by Keller Scholl - Neon Dawn

On technodeterminism, stability, and agency

re: The Future of AI is Already Written The essay makes two claims: firstly, that technology determines societal outcomes, and secondly, that the default world after high degrees of automation will be very good. The first has an extensive argument, while the second is a paragraph and a half of possibilities that provides no evidence or argument, so I will focus on the first. I’m writing this because, compared to most, I’m a technodeterminist. I think that the nature of a society can be substantially predicted from the mode of economic production. While “technodeterminism” is a term of…

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