Tanner Greer

Is this true? Maybe not.

Tanner Greer has a great article on how mass panic happens more often in elites' imaginations than in real life.

But even if it was, isn't this a fully general argument against anyone ever saying that any bad thing might happen? If the stock market was a bubble that might pop, wouldn't discussing the bubble encourage panic? If there were an asteroid headed to Earth, wouldn't talking about the asteroid encourage panic? Does that mean we should just keep quiet? Elsewhere, you expand on what sorts of consequences you expect from people learning that AI might be dangerous.

Telling young people they will soon perish en masse has costs in their appreciation of the institutions of modernity, their mental health, their confidence to invest in themselves and their society, and their willingness to have children, itself a risk of extinction You think young people can't handle hearing about the possibility that AI might be dangerous because it might cause them to lose appreciation for the institutions of modernity.

He's written actually some nice stuff about Charlie after last year's tragedy.

Uh, his name is Tanner Greer, and he wrote an article, Why Americans Hate Data Centers, and he argues that past technological revolutions, if you were gonna build a railroad, railroads were the big thing in the 1800s.

The boon of having a railroad built through your town was so immediate and obvious that now trains could show up in your town.

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