"I saw my first Whole Earth Catalog in a bookstore. I opened it up and it was like, ‘This is for me. He's talking to me. This is exactly everything that I'm interested in.'" Kevin Kelly, Long Now board member and founding editor of Wired magazine, talks to @substack about long-term thinking, technoptimism, and how he helped shape the early internet. (plus, it’s filmed in a beautiful location if we do say so ourselves) on.substack.com/p/open-tab-k…

they made technoptimism right wing!?

right, genai is explicitly a fascist medium. unfortunately this says some things about the overall technoptimism potential imo

They’re all coexisting in the mutated swamp of Red Scare, Technoptimism, Retvurnposting and pseudo-intellectualism. They think that esoteric vagueposting, obscure phraseology and being ‘subversive’ makes them interesting.

Singularity is closer, than most people think. You have to have technoptimism.

cuando rompo las pelotas con el technoptimism compu vs smartphone estoy pensando en esto

There's technoptimism, of which I lean strongly towards...and then there's whatever the fuck this is.

The team @AlterMagIndia is creating a desi technoptimism magazine and I couldn’t be more excited. I’ve always held a certain reverence for scifi as a medium. I consider it a fundamentally important pursuit. Let me explain: As humans, we’ve crafted stories about every bit of the experience of being alive. Adventures and struggle, lands and oceans, wars and voyages. Real and fictional. We wrote about the past and the present, the shape of history and how we all got to where we are. But we didn’t write much about the future. It’s only a century ago, that we as a species had expanded our technological capabilities enough that we started wondering - where does this all go. Sure there were stories of voyages to the moon or mythological space creatures, but they always leaned more fiction than science till that point. But as recently as a century ago, we began writing in earnest, about where things go as our technological capabilities rapidly expanded, and we started on this exponent. Suddenly we were speaking about galactic empires and brain interfaces, machine men and automatons, fusion spaceships and healing tanks. We became so much more ambitious as a species. The futures we wrote directly shaped it into existence. We know because we live in it. With selfdriving cars and space stations, surgery robots and lunar landers, nuclear reactors and speaking computers. And a couple dozen robots sprinkled around the solar system right now. None of this is normal. Give it reverence for a second. Scifi is a fundamentally important pursuit because it lets you imagine better futures without some asshole ruining it with the current turmoil of earthly problems. Cause yk, it’s fiction, back off. Just solving for that clever little problem yeilds so much insight into what a brilliant future could look like, and what it’d take to create it. Cultivating this lens and viewing the world through it has been a great source of pleasure for me. I consider it deeply important. And I believe we should spread it fervently. To see scifi and technoptimsitic content from India, and seeing the stories being built right here told through that same lens, is really exciting. I’ll be tuning in.

my most unpopular opinion is that 99% of technoptimism is just meant to pacify people as stupid as this guy

"But it’s not too late to avert the very worst outcomes" - true technically, but *not true* if you have any understanding of human psychology on the species (not individual) level. i don't know why scientists insist on technoptimism. you can't mobilize 8B humans.

I feel like an idiot for defending BTI and the Ecomodernism Movement against leftie criticism years ago, they really never cared about climate change and their supposed technoptimism regarding climate innovation was totally fake. The mask is only slipping now their donor

Thanks to my parents, I’ve had the chance to visit quite a few countries over the past few years. But San Francisco is different. It has hints of Italy, France, and Japan, but what stands out most is the spirit of technoptimism. Just overhearing conversations about startups and crazy yet achievable ideas is enough to make anyone more motivated to build and help make the world a better place. It’s only my second day here, but it already feels magical (even though I’ve mostly been coding from my apartment while spinning up 5 Claude code instances and vibe coding with 3 o3 pro chats in Cursor)

You must be new to me. (I don’t tolerate dystopian dread on my timeline without balancing it with an appropriate dose of technoptimism)

Effektiver Altruismus (EA) und effektiver Akzelerationismus (e/acc) - ein kleiner Einblick in die düsteren Visionen der Big-Tech-Bros. spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mens… #bigtech #bigtechbros #effectivealtruism #technoptimism e/acc #effectiveaccelerationism #musk #andreessen

it’s technoptimism in practice: waymo or bust

If you want more of my background, I'm an American patriot who thinks that the US has done far more positive for the world than harm like the UK empire before it, and that Western civilization is the greatest thing that has ever visited the world with its strong foundation in Christian values and humanistic tolerance. There are plenty of faults as we live in a purgatorial realm in which all forms perish, but western civilization is Good and out of that Goodness it should continue to thrive The US started to become more corrupt once it won the cold war and lacked a true enemy that could keep it sharp and on point like the USSR, that corruptness is evident in the transhumanist point of view Due to technoptimism, transhumanism is the greatest internal threat to the Christian and humanist values from which western civilization derives its legitimacy. The biopolitical and somewhat genocidal tendency displayed during the pandemic needs to be reckoned with and disarmed, something that completely bewildering to me, seems to be completely lacking from any serious discourse among leadership outside of RFK

Technoptimism

Yeah some jobs need to signal technoptimism or technoproficiency. To be fair, most people are just predicting that AI will replace engineers, not saying it's there quite yet

embrace technoptimism or just keep crying about misalignment…. Which way ..??

Lean In [to technoptimism]