The point I was trying to make is that we click on and read negative news, and this skews our perceptions of what’s happening, and critically the negativity bias operates regardless of the actual reality of the problem, that is it doesn’t distinguish between the things that are very bad, just merely bad but solvable, and not bad at all.
In essence, I’m positing a selection effect, where we keep hearing more about the bad things, and hear less or none about the good things, so we are biased to believe that our world is more negative than it actually is.
And to connect it to the first comment, the reason you keep noticing precursors to existentially risky technology but not precursors existentially safe technology, or why this is happening:
To me it is as if technologies that tend to do more good than harm, or at least, would improve our odds by their introduction, social or otherwise, do not exist. That can’t be right, surely?...
Is essentially an aspect of negativity bias because your information sources emphasize the negative over the positive news, no matter what reality looks like.
The point I was trying to make is that we click on and read negative news, and this skews our perceptions of what’s happening, and critically the negativity bias operates regardless of the actual reality of the problem, that is it doesn’t distinguish between the things that are very bad, just merely bad but solvable, and not bad at all.
In essence, I’m positing a selection effect, where we keep hearing more about the bad things, and hear less or none about the good things, so we are biased to believe that our world is more negative than it actually is.
And to connect it to the first comment, the reason you keep noticing precursors to existentially risky technology but not precursors existentially safe technology, or why this is happening:
Is essentially an aspect of negativity bias because your information sources emphasize the negative over the positive news, no matter what reality looks like.
The link where I got this idea is below:
https://archive.is/lc0aY