AI safety debates shouldn’t crowd out the case for enormous upside
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-07-24
The author argues that discussions of AI safety and job uncertainty should not crowd out the upside: AI could help cure previously impossible diseases, create major wealth, reduce drunk driving, and even enable Mars travel. The thread frames the last 50 years as an imagination-suppressing period of stagnation, and suggests that a future of abundance is now plausible if status quo bias and degrowth politics do not block it.
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