Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm an optimist about the power of technology to transform lives for the better.
We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose.
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.
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