Silicon Valley's 'control matter and energy' success narrative clashes over AI pessimism
jd_pressman · x · 2026-10-07
jachiam0 argues many in Silicon Valley define humanity's "success" as controlling maximal matter and energy — a task beyond human limits — which slowly pushes them toward successionism; understanding success as coming from inner lives, relationships, creativity and cooperation would ease their pessimism. jdpressman quotes and counters that his own pessimism stems precisely from the collapse of those very things over the past two decades — a representative AGI-values debate in AI circles.
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