The Angry Optimist
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Don't look up, look forward
Is humanity at a crossroads? Two optimistic videos claim so. But such a crossroads does not exist.
🎮 Violent video games don't make children aggressive
Parents and moralists can relax. Violent video and computer games do not make children aggressive, as demonstrated by three studies.
🌍 Stop saving the world
If the world needs saving, it means that it is falling apart. On the contrary, the world is getting better.
💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: A motorcycle for the mind
Steve Jobs called the computer a bicycle for the mind. Then AI is a motorcycle.
🔃 Optimism is dead
Optimism is dead – So don’t fool us that – The future is created by optimists.
💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: Doomsday talk and climate change
Does doomsday rhetoric about the climate work?
💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: How should one think about Elon Musk?
I discovered Elon Musk ten years ago and became obsessed. This is how my thoughts about him have changed since then.
💡 Musings of The Angry Optimist: FINALLY some pushback against AI doomerism
Several heavyweights who disagree with the AI pessimists have made no effort to really push back on the doomsday rhetoric. But now Marc Andreessen finally does!
🦾 OpenAI's breakthrough in understanding AI's black box (so we can build safe AI)
OpenAI has found a way to solve part of the AI alignment problem. So we can understand and create safe AI.