there's something about recursive self improvement & exponential takeoff & extending trend lines to infinity... my brain just shrugs away from it and says everything hits constraints, just as any species does in the environment, and that the world is complex and things are never quite as good or as bad as we imagine

same attitude wrt longtermism really, that my error bars grow so large so quickly that it becomes pointless to talk about the distant future as a reason to do anything, really