How is it that personal life satisfaction is so high, yet satisfaction with how things are going is so low? My thought is that its due to "doomerism", the idea that the world is a terrible, terrible ...

On Sept. 10, 2024, I was taken to task by my opposite number at the Massachusetts Daily Collegian’s News team, over my rather depressing, or “doomer” take on the presidential debate between Kamala ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. A growing number of intellectuals are embracing “AI ...

Without naming names, Huang blamed "very well-respected people" for end-of-the-world narratives. Huang said the rhetoric is "scaring people" from making investments in the improvement of AI. Jensen ...

A top executive at Palantir says he's "super skeptical" that AI will be catastrophic for humanity — and he says those fears are in part driven by a lack of religion. "I think the secularists in ...

News aggregation startup Artifact co-founder Kevin Systrom doesn't believe in AI doomerism, even as he's developing a new app that's embracing novel AI technologies. The Instagram co-founder, speaking ...

It’s a big week for American Compass, a think tank founded in 2020 that fancies itself as the “pre-eminent alternative to the Old Right’s market fundamentalism.” On the heels of its new policy book, ...

Many of the leading voices in AI have co-signed yet another ominous open letter warning that we should be “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI.” However, the voices shouting for regulation the ...

Sage Lenier, 24, is so done with climate doomerism that, in fall 2018, she launched a whole course as an antidote for feelings of guilt and hopelessness about the warming planet. Solutions for a ...

Scientists cringe when President Joe Biden and other politicians say the world is “damned” if temperatures rise above 1.5 degrees Celsius. Damned. Lost. Done. President Joe Biden keeps saying the ...

The optimum is probably an acknowledgement of the problem with partial, necessary-but-not-sufficient solutions that can potentially be improved, and proposals for just that. Don't tell me that doesn't ...