Bernardo Lopes de Almeida

[Bernardo Lopes de Almeida @doortomybrain]

@JMCerdeira @LiberalPT 💪🔥

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Identity politics is a cancer.

Pushed by untalented, envious and resentful failures who want to drive us apart and play to our worst instincts.

It works because humans are pre-wired for tribalism. It therefore takes conscious effort to resist.

That effort is worth it.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

My greatest fear for the future of AI is if overhyped risks (such as human extinction) lets tech lobbyists get enacted stifling regulations that suppress open-source and crush innovation.

Read more in our Halloween special issue of the Batch: https://t.co/CNqP2TYBLM

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

Crushed it @KonstantinKisin

Dare I say even topping the Oxford union speech

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[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1

“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
— Walker Percy

“Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow. A person born in Sumer in 4,000BC would find the resources, work, and technology available in England at the time of the Norman Conquest or in the Aztec Empire at the time of Columbus quite familiar. Then, beginning in the 18th Century, many people’s standard of living skyrocketed. What brought about this dramatic improvement, and why?”
— Marian Tupy

“There’s a way to do it better. Find it.”
— Thomas Edison

Lies

We are being lied to.

We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.

We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about technology.

We are told to be pessimistic.

The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator – haunts our nightmares.

We are told to denounce our birthright – our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world.

We are told to be miserable about the future.