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Tech boosters ignore present realities, skewing future predictions

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The author argues that technology boosters, particularly in the AI sector, often fail to accurately predict the future because they lack a deep understanding of the present and past. They tend to rely on idealized or fictionalized versions of technology, ignoring the true costs and suffering involved, such as in the mining industry. The piece suggests that even widespread automation through AI would not fundamentally change the expensive and complex realities of resource extraction. AI

IMPACT Critiques the optimistic framing of AI's impact on resource extraction and future prediction.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece critiquing technology boosters' understanding of the future and the costs of AI.

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Tech boosters ignore present realities, skewing future predictions

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    I belabor this point because of its importance to debunking the # technology boosters' insistence that they know the future better than anyone: in order to pred

    I belabor this point because of its importance to debunking the # technology boosters' insistence that they know the future better than anyone: in order to predict the future correctly one must understand the present and the past, and the techies know neither of these things very…

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