Pessimists Archive @PessimistsArc
Exploring technophobia and moral panic through the ages. A litany of shameful cynicism and spite. Curated by @louisanslow Newsletter.PessimistsArchive.org Joined October 2015-
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Professor today: “IQ is way down” Professor in 1970s*: “IQ is way down” Numerate / empirical evidence: “IQ is way up” —- * my grandfather, Duke prof, complained students were worse each year - I think all teachers complain about this since forever, yet overall IQ is up…
Professor today: “IQ is way down” Professor in 1970s*: “IQ is way down” Numerate / empirical evidence: “IQ is way up” —- * my grandfather, Duke prof, complained students were worse each year - I think all teachers complain about this since forever, yet overall IQ is up… https://t.co/zUOd8S4fHK
News are erupting in Germany that the parliament's decision to go through with the nuclear phase-out was partly based on false information that seems to have been deliberately falsified. cicero.de/innenpolitik/r…
Scott Alexander has a point. Elites panicking about an artificially stimulated explosion of intelligence in society is a useless analogy to understand modern AI fears! No lessons to be learned. astralcodexten.com/p/desperately-…
You have to read about the pager panic: newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgotte…
If we don't save net neutrality, you'll get the internet one word at a time. #savethenet #savetheinternet #netneutrality #onemorevote
🌸🌷It’s publication day!! 🌷🌸 Available for purchase in all good bookshops, online or in-person. Can’t wait for the launch tonight 🥂toppingbooks.co.uk/books/agnes-ar…
How much did the introduction of mobile phones — which crowded out drug-use-inducing pagers — contribute to reductions in teen drug use?
How much did the introduction of mobile phones — which crowded out drug-use-inducing pagers — contribute to reductions in teen drug use?
2020: Sierra Club sues to stop a transmission line from brining clean hydropower from Canada to Maine 2024: Sierra Club sues the Maine government for not doing enough to combat climate change
A fun anecdote from our latest newsletter: Motorola rallied kids to fight pager bans newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgotte…
2022: kids aren’t doing their homework because they’re doing TikTok dances 1933: kids aren’t doing their homework because they’re doing the shimmy
2022: kids aren’t doing their homework because they’re doing TikTok dances 1933: kids aren’t doing their homework because they’re doing the shimmy
😱Moral Panic Checklist ☑️ Youth Trend ☑️ Worried Parents ☑️ Large new industry ☑️ Angry Incumbents ☑️ 1 Scary Sounding Study ☑️ Sensational Reporting ☑️ Book plugging charlatans ☑️ Posturing Lawmakers ☑️ Non-specific solutions ☑️“It’s different this time”pessimistsarchive.substack.com/p/all-the-time…
We wrote about the AI doomerism in The Unabomber manifesto that Tucker Carlson referenced on Joe Rogan: newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-unabombe…
AI doomerism is incoherent reactionary populism. No surprise then that it has been adopted by Tucker Carlson.
AI doomerism is incoherent reactionary populism. No surprise then that it has been adopted by Tucker Carlson.
So many of these moments have at their center a technology that was novel (and likely disapproved of by elders) at the time, same as the smart phone for children now
So many of these moments have at their center a technology that was novel (and likely disapproved of by elders) at the time, same as the smart phone for children now
Our latests investigation into pager prohibition uncovers thousands of children were arrested in the late 1980s and early 1990s for possessing pagers… newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgotte…
OPINION: Jonathan Haidt’s new book “The Anxious Generation” blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that’s easy, wrong, and dangerous. trib.al/o1fAvVL
Handwriting is biometric authentication. Keyboards removed this ‘verification’ (so did telegrams) It caused some issues, we figured it out.
Handwriting is biometric authentication. Keyboards removed this ‘verification’ (so did telegrams) It caused some issues, we figured it out.
Antonio García Mart�.. @antoniogm
170K Followers 13K Following Founder @spindl_xyz. Wrote 'Chaos Monkeys' (https://t.co/LHo7HbnpNa). Wearer of many hats. גם זה יעבור 🇺🇲🇪🇸
David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf
119K Followers 63 Following Physicist. Author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity
Human Progress @HumanProgress
141K Followers 744 Following A @CatoInstitute project. Learn more about our books, Centers of Progress & Heroes of Progress: https://t.co/QkH6i6NWvB & https://t.co/9InqE3oa2l
Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey
219K Followers 2K Following I am a technology enthusiast, writer, and modder. Founder of ModRetro, @Oculus VR, and @Anduriltech. Keeping American superheroes safe with autonomous systems.
Steph Smith @stephsmithio
147K Followers 99 Following 🎧 Pod host @a16z 💻 Chronically online: https://t.co/AkbwhoTr0K 📈 Led Trends @TheHustle acq by @HubSpot 📘 Wrote https://t.co/w1DBDrOZdI 🎙 Podcast at @sydlis 👇
Yishan @yishan
79K Followers 355 Following I run Terraformation, and I was once the CEO of Reddit. Both are very interesting challenges. Views are mine alone, but also yours if I do my job right.
Max Roser @MaxCRoser
287K Followers 1K Following Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them. Founder of @OurWorldInData / Professor at @UniofOxford's @BlavatnikSchool
Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford
33K Followers 3K Following Founder, @rootsofprogress. I write about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Working to build the progress community and movement
Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly
125K Followers 489 Following Senior Maverick at Wired, author of bestseller book, The Inevitable. Also Cool Tool maven, Recomendo chief, and radical optimist.
Steven Sinofsky @stevesi
208K Followers 6K Following ॐ • Subscribe to https://t.co/HO6BEn7SN1 • delving • seed investing • writing • everlaw boxhq tanium w/a16z… •📷• ॐ •🙏• tweets kept 90 days • 🇮🇱
George Mack @george__mack
287K Followers 942 Following The best ideas I think or find. Get the best ideas, essays and videos I've collected here: https://t.co/q33ixsFPbq
Jeremy 'adjusted for .. @jmhorp
18K Followers 1K Following Dad, Economist, and Arkansan. Associate Professor @UCAbusiness, Director @ACRE_UCA, but these tweets are mine alone.
mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer
22K Followers 9K Following making machines that make other machines @genfabco - rationalist, humanist, liberal, and friend of the future
Mike Maples, Jr @m2jr
84K Followers 7K Following Unearthing the mysteries of outlier startups. Partner @floodgatefund. Unabashedly grateful to live in the USA.
Technophobia @TechnophobiaOrg
2K Followers 363 Following Promoting more reasonable dialogue about technology and the future.
rohit @krishnanrohit
19K Followers 2K Following Building God at https://t.co/frWeoc7IVB - buy the book, it makes me happy! | essays weekly at https://t.co/TbCaC6VaaM
Horace Dediu @asymco
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GersonDeWinter @GersondeWinter
345 Followers 5K Following Biological Human Intelligence. Non Biological Intelligence (AGI) will replace allmost all jobs, thus ending the monetary economy and culture as we know it+NHI
Dana Mahmood @deordered
8 Followers 649 Following Fine-tuning AI models oftentimes & practicing philosopher at other times.
Joey 🌊 @moviemunger
72 Followers 208 Following megawaves (🌊): waves, trends or movements that change the world
Pythagore @Pythagoretkt
60 Followers 384 Following
Ryan Davis @RD_0327
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Anthony Bordg @AnthonyBordg
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David L.^_^ 🐦 @david1lz
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Christian Garrett @CGarrett_15
7K Followers 3K Following 🌐 137 Ventures 🙏🏽 Revivalist & Futurist 🏀 @kuhoops 📖 @csfnational @milkeninstitute 📚 @TBGSFoundation (all opinions are my own and do not represent 137)
Electronicsseeker @libertarian108
7 Followers 912 Following
Jimmy @thevenjimmy
113 Followers 446 Following 🕺 You'll be dancing once again and the pain will end Funded by a three letter agency.
systems_optimization @mhajinah
242 Followers 272 Following American patriot. Python programmer. “We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”
o tal do cara la @otaldocarala
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suleiman @sullmano_
1 Followers 24 Following
Ludger Wess @LudgerWess
6K Followers 884 Following Drawn into biology since my first encounter with a microscope. Research in molecular biology, now science writer: fiction, non-fiction, commentaries.
p4n @p4nthera_
78 Followers 302 Following Creating cool stuff via code & art Building @booknook_app in public
B. @busradyy
52 Followers 439 Following
Emily Hayman @eehayman
375 Followers 362 Following Web developer. Sass enthusiast. Pretty into puns. @datadoghq previously @algolia
Steven Kemp @StvnKemp
1K Followers 1K Following Serra Hunter lecturer in criminology @CriminologiaUdG @dretpublicudg. Researching cybercrime, fraud, crime reporting, sentencing.
Gab-thecoolest @Gab_dude_abides
465 Followers 5K Following bi-modal musings on what I find interesting in science and technology. I'm particularly interested in Co2 reduction chemistry and cleantech.
awolfee @alyssawolfe
3K Followers 4K Following ⚡️I’m just a girl trying to thrive the web3 world ❤️🐺 miami event curator, supporter of local artists, bullish on anime & music NFTs 🤍🇮🇱🕊️ עם ישראל חי ✡︎
N95 @N9559278641
80 Followers 820 Following
Abundance Institute @abundanceinst
2K Followers 11 Following Creating an environment for emerging technologies to grow, develop, and thrive
Roberto Carvajal @netkrash
469 Followers 612 Following husband, father, software developer, gamer, entrepreneur, inventor.
$$$ — e/acc @sp1d3r_8eyes
60 Followers 333 Following
Katie Thesing @katbrigaid
66 Followers 81 Following
Ghosty Goo @ALENGORICAL
117 Followers 270 Following limited viability. time dilation sucks. anarcho-syndicalist. reverse technician. gender: sufjanstevens, steppenwolf
FacialTherapySpeciali.. @facial_therapy
705 Followers 1K Following We are a multi-disciplinary therapy team committed to ensuring that patients with facial palsy have access to quality care.
BoltzLord @boltzlord
15 Followers 119 Following Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.
Sage Withrow @SWithrow13
33 Followers 291 Following
Rekli123 @Rekli4236
2 Followers 107 Following
Kayla Harris @arora
573 Followers 255 Following nothing is spectacular if you aren’t part of it join me in bringing the impossibly cool next century with @abundanceinst
Louise Courtman @louisecourtman
196 Followers 3K Following Co-Founder of Alpha Capture Protocol @AlphaCaptureXYZ / I like tennis, cooking, languages and running on trails.
19890723 @tDzISWb22CPtFrP
4 Followers 2K Following
Plato's Dialectic @platosdialectic
557 Followers 3K Following
Dali Darling @LisaCatMummy
75 Followers 394 Following
Benedikt @BenediktDarkos
23 Followers 71 Following Entrepreneur - Consultant - Believer - Lover - Fighter
Dr. Amber A. Logan @AmberAnnLogan
908 Followers 2K Following Author of THE SECRET GARDEN OF YANAGI INN, freelance editor, university professor. Creative Writing PhD from @AngliaRuskin Rep'd by @harryillers @DHHLitAgency
Dyuti @dyuti_k
12 Followers 238 Following
Technophobia @TechnophobiaOrg
2K Followers 363 Following Promoting more reasonable dialogue about technology and the future.
Nathan Blecharczyk @nathanblec
37K Followers 102 Following Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer of Airbnb
Noah Smith 🐇🇺�.. @Noahpinion
321K Followers 1K Following Writes about economics, posts about rabbits. For serious opinions/analysis, read my blog: https://t.co/KfUxUlCYPz
Jeff Lawson @jeffiel
46K Followers 155 Following Owner of The Onion. Entrepreneur, ex-CEO and cofounder of Twilio. NYT Worst Selling author.
Christopher Koopman @ckoopman
2K Followers 1K Following Building something new. Meghan's husband. Henry, Danny, Caroline, Jude, Anna, and Rose’s dad.
Todd Rose @ltoddrose
8K Followers 39 Following WSJ bestselling author of Collective Illusions, Dark Horse, and The End of Average. CEO, https://t.co/BnpudFgeY1. Rep: @keithurbahn.
Andy Bobrow @abobrow
16K Followers 1K Following The greatest living comedy writer of our time. Maybe even the world.
Caroline Crampton @c_crampton
10K Followers 2K Following Writer and podcaster. Author of A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria (April '24) and The Way to the Sea. Maker of @shedunnitshow. Editor @thebrowser
TheBrowser @TheBrowser
41K Followers 369 Following Daily newsletter recommending and summarising the internet's finest articles, hand-picked by @robertcottrell & @c_crampton. Posts here by @uribram
Khaled Jalanbo @KhaledJalanbo
2K Followers 1K Following Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ValiaVentures
Ken Kocienda @kocienda
46K Followers 147 Following Head of Product Engineering at Humane. Past: 15 years at , inventor of iPhone autocorrect, author of “Creative Selection”
Imran Chaudhri @imranchaudhri
48K Followers 487 Following Designer & Inventor of things like the thing you’re holding. Co-Founder & Chairman of @Humane (https://t.co/oo6Vs0lQx3) DM’s are open, but delayed
Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil
8K Followers 3K Following Philosopher, University of Sussex. Tweets in personal capacity. Interested in: Philosophy, Psychology, Society. Writes at: https://t.co/MniDhzFnow
Ed Cumming @edcumming
17K Followers 4K Following senior feature writer @Telegraph free lunch editor, @the_fence_mag
Chris Ferguson @CJFerguson1111
8K Followers 399 Following PhD Psychologist, Author of Suicide Kings; Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games is Wrong & How Madness Shaped History. Member of an awesome family.
Heidi Shierholz @hshierholz
21K Followers 2K Following President, @EconomicPolicy. Former Chief Economist, US Dept of Labor. Bike commuter, backyard beekeeper. Tweets my own, particularly the dog tweets. She/her.
Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos
6.4M Followers 355 Following Amazon. Blue Origin. Washington Post. Bezos Earth Fund. Bezos Academy.
Emily Ratajkowski @emrata
1.5M Followers 283 Following author of NYT Bestseller MY BODY available here ⬇️
𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾�.. @Grimezsz
1.4M Followers 2K Following
prof-g @robertghrist
17K Followers 2K Following @Penn mathematician; engineer; educator; assoc. dean of undergraduate education @PennEngineers; illustrator; animator; e/accta non verba
Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger
12K Followers 944 Following Mad Scientist, Bon Vivant, and Raconteur.
Dr Adam Rutherford @AdamRutherford
166K Followers 3K Following Back off man, I'm a scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL Genetics, race, eugenics, history of science, movies, books, cricket, +–=÷×
Dr Agnes Arnold-Forst.. @agnesjuliet
7K Followers 4K Following Writer, Historian, and Chancellor’s Fellow @EdinburghUni | NOSTALGIA out w/ @PicadorBooks April 2024 | Agent @OliAgent | Views own | She/her
Salzfee @Salzfee_00
129 Followers 881 Following
David Autor @davidautor
19K Followers 229 Following
Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3
537K Followers 24K Following Journalist I Writer I Futurist I Curator THE WALL OF GREAT AFRICANS (WoGA) https://t.co/yD7eQNxDDC• Walk like you have 3,000 ancestors walking behind you.
Brian Groom @GroomB
32K Followers 10K Following Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of bestselling 'Northerners: A History'. Next book: 'Made in Manchester' 23 May 2024.
Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper
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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0
43K Followers 5K Following Data Scientist/Musician/Participant in the General Confusion @trutherbotprop Resist autocracy and research/counter disinformation. I serve the realm.
Louis Anslow @LouisAnslow
3K Followers 5K Following Curator of @PessimistsArc • Rethinking messages @TellChat • https://t.co/30JgUOkiBD • AI Doomer Beat Reporter • Email: [email protected]
Derek Thompson @DKThomp
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Chris Anderson @TEDchris
1.5M Followers 1K Following Head of TED. Dreamer. Most days an optimist. TED = free talks on the web in Technology, Entertainment, Design & ideas worth spreading. https://t.co/5OMY86h3d0
Hester Peirce @HesterPeirce
101K Followers 948 Following SEC Commissioner since 1/2018. My tweets may not reflect the views of the SEC or any other SEC Commissioner. No direct messages, but [email protected]
Robin Wigglesworth @RobinWigg
75K Followers 2K Following Editor of @FTAlphaville. Norwegian despite the Harry Potter-esque name. Author of TRILLIONS. Views mine bla bla.
Jared Rubin @jaredcrubin
9K Followers 636 Following Economics Professor @ChapmanU. President of @ASREC_Religion. Author of Rulers, Religion and Riches and How the World Became Rich https://t.co/1koBQc1JXY
Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 @RuxandraTeslo
17K Followers 3K Following Genomics PhD 🧬 @sangerinstitute | Somatic Evolution in Aging & Cancer | long- form https://t.co/ipFMYGuR84 | Emergent Ventures | views my own
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch
491K Followers 6K Following Columnist and chief data reporter @FinancialTimes | Stories, stats & scatterplots | Senior fellow @LSEdataScience | [email protected]
Internet Archive @internetarchive
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15K Followers 782 Following Operating Partner @a16z. Head of marketing/content. Mom. Immigrant. Not messing around….
American Optimist @AmOptimistShow
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Tom Wenseleers @TWenseleers
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this latest move against golden rice by Greenpeace should force us to once again ask, "How Many Lives Are Lost Due to the Precautionary Principle?" Turns out that people have done the math on that... mercatus.org/economic-insig…
Brutal, correct, and deserved: "Children could die because of Greenpeace’s Golden Rice activism" spectator.co.uk/article/childr…
We crave experts for the new thing but almost all experts are expert in the old thing.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge designed and used AI that identifies new Parkison’s disease treatments 10 times faster scitechdaily.com/groundbreaking…
Little tech really needs to get a lot more aggressive against big tech. They're going for full control right now.
Yesterday, during peak energy demand (8:10pm), the largest energy supplier to the California grid was... batteries. Expect to see a lot more of this in the near future.
Unironically proud to be a freshly minted American! Not everyone gets to choose their country, but I did and I chose the USA 🇺🇸 ❤️🇺🇸
There are 19,895,701 people in the Midjourney Discord server Crazy to me that 99% of them are still using Midjourney in Discord The web alpha is SO much better. Soon everyone will be able to use it Discord sucks
@SnazzyLabs yes it does, just push back while you are in the in call UI, you will see the option for a dialpad.
All dressed up and ready to celebrate! 📖🍾
🌸🌷It’s publication day!! 🌷🌸 Available for purchase in all good bookshops, online or in-person. Can’t wait for the launch tonight 🥂toppingbooks.co.uk/books/agnes-ar…
A vision of the future in 1956.
Many people will die because of this idiotic decision. Good job Greenpeace!!
Disastrous news from the Philippines- the Court of Appeals has sided with Greenpeace and the antis in blocking vit-A enhanced Golden Rice, which is now in widespread cultivation in the country. All planting must now stop, harming the interests of millions. philrice.gov.ph/philrice-ackno…
@wetarynitup Why it's worth reading important books multiple times: paulgraham.com/know.html
there is more alpha in reading a few great books multiple times than reading many good books once
We believe ARVR is among the most underrated markets today. Most people fixate on past (and current) missteps, leading to assumptions that are simply wrong. With ~30m Meta Quest headsets sold and a favorable industry outlook, we think the time is now. ⬇️
How much did the introduction of mobile phones — which crowded out drug-use-inducing pagers — contribute to reductions in teen drug use?
@DKThomp Flashback to when people thought banning pagers would reduce teen drug use newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgotte…
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Version 1.0 of Abundance Institute, a nonprofit creating space for emerging technologies to grow and thrive, is hereby released.
In response to Florida's social media ban for young people & Haidt's new book, @Margarita_KP and I wrote a blog summarizing the scientific evidence of social media bans. We also discuss initiatives that would actually tackle youth mental health issues. eiko-fried.com/social-media-b…
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