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Zoe Weinberg

Zoe Weinberg

Jan 21, 2026

16:10
I
16:10
do think, Charlie, you're touching on something noteworthy here, which is and I I'll speak only for myself, but I've been observing in the last couple of years as it has felt to me like the the ideological landscape of the discussion in Silicon Valley has been really defined by these extremes.
16:27
And on one end, it's like the acceleration is kind of techno optimism way of seeing the world.
16:32
And on the other side, on the other kind of far extreme, it is like existential and catastrophic risk and ways that you, you know, we must prevent that.
16:41
And I know a lot of people who don't feel like they really belong in either of those camps and actually don't even really think that the optimist pessimist spectrum is like the right way to think about it.
16:53
And so from my own perspective, part of what I have hoped that the resonant computing manifesto will accomplish is like helping to establish.
17:02
some values and some north stars that are that are kind of on a different plane from that conversation um that also feel um like there can be both you can both be optimistic about the ways things might develop and also concerned about the places we've come from and that those things can coexist and like that is like the beauty and complexity of of like the the technological moment we're in

23 MINS LATER

40:42
And I don't know how much longer I really want to feel bad in this context.
29:20
I
29:20
do think, Charlie, you're touching on something noteworthy here, which is – and I'll speak only for myself.
29:26
But I've been observing in the last couple of years as it has felt to me like the – the ideological landscape of the discussion in Silicon Valley has been really defined by these extremes.
29:36
And on one end, it's like the accelerationist kind of techno-optimism way of seeing the world.
29:41
And on the other kind of far extreme, it is like existential and catastrophic risk and ways that we must prevent that.
29:50
And I know a lot of people who don't feel like they really belong in either of those camps and actually don't even really think that the optimist pessimist spectrum is like the right way to think about it.
30:03
And so from my own perspective, part of what I have hoped that the resonant computing manifesto will accomplish is like helping to establish.

23 MINS LATER

53:35
I would love, Zoe, I'd love for you to begin on this one, but do you feel like this is happening? To me, it feels very much like people are waking up to the idea that this stuff makes me feel bad, and I don't know how much longer I really want to feel bad in this context.

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