The Accelerationist Luddite

Why Be an Accelerationist ? I don't know the exact risk from artificial superintelligence, and neither does anyone else. But I do know the risk of doing nothing: disease, poverty, war, pollution, worms that burrow into people's eyeballs. Technology is for fixing things. Faster. Cheaper. For more people. I want new drugs discovered in weeks, not years, because the patient doesn’t have years. You…