This is a definitely a tangent, and I don’t want to detract from your more substantive points (about which I don’t have as strong an opinion one way or the other).
Or “hopesters”, as Eliezer recently called them, which I think is a play on “huckster” (and which accords with this essay analogizing optimists to Ponzi scheme scammers).
I read this as a play on the word “Doomer”, which is a term that is slightly derogatory, but mostly descriptive. My read of “hopester”, without any additional context, is the same.
This is a definitely a tangent, and I don’t want to detract from your more substantive points (about which I don’t have as strong an opinion one way or the other).
I read this as a play on the word “Doomer”, which is a term that is slightly derogatory, but mostly descriptive. My read of “hopester”, without any additional context, is the same.