I don't understand why you decided to respond to an almost-dead comment when the top-voted comment thread shows the same technopessimism.
There weren't many comments when I replied.
My criticism was tailored to a fairly specific phenomenon: asymmetrically imaginative doomsaying that appeals to a vivid vignette / sketch of an adjacent possible future featuring some hyperbolically elaborated extension of trending tech, like Flash Mob Gone Wrong[1] and Slaughterbots[2].
HN flagging and points are irrelevant to me.
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