Sebkrier: Bay Area AI Pessimism Is Crushing, but Foresight Institute Feels Like 90s Tech Optimism
sebkrier · x · 2026-11-16
Sebkrier describes the sadness of Bay Area visits — street misery plus an AI crowd that is deeply pessimistic, hyperbolic and fatalistic. His refreshing exceptions: the Foresight Institute community and the Internet Archive's greybeards, an optimistic, agentic, epistemically uncorrelated crowd reminiscent of ambitious 90s tech optimism. His takeaway: remember the future can be crazy and good.
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