The world doesn’t just contain optimists and pessimists and wise and unwise technology users. It contains enemies of civilization as well. And knowledge is impartial. It can be used for good or evil. But the enemies of civilization all necessarily have one thing in common. They are wrong. And so they fear error correction and truth. And that’s why they resist changes in their ideas, which makes them less creative and slower to innovate. So our defense against the existential danger from malevolent uses of technology, the only defense is speed. The good guys must use their only advantage to stay ahead.
I think we’re going to merge with the machines rather than be taken over by them. And that merging with machines began about six thousand years ago when writing was invented. This is a continuous process. We are completely different people knowing writing than we were before that. And this will always be true.