Critical Maas #18: Keynes' most-misread forecast, transhumanist AGI critique and more
matthijsMmaas · x · 2026-11-11
AI researcher Matthijs Maas's newsletter Critical Maas (#18, September edition) curates deep reads: Joseph Levine on how Keynes's "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" — the world's most-misread economics forecast — treated 15-hour workweeks with dread, not aspiration; a transhumanist critique of AGI futures; the rise of Luddism; agentic children vs. children's agents; plus finds like an interactive foldable-tree Tractatus and "Any Human Ever," which reconstructs a representative life from 100 billion humans in history.
Related event: AI Researcher Matthijs Maas Publishes 18th Monthly Link Roundup(2 posts)→
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