I hadn’t heard of Jan Bloch, and he indeed seemed both like an important figure in my memetic history, and object-level interesting for getting a sense of “who has previously attempted to anticipate major technological change, and prevent catastrophe?”.
I’d be interested in posts exploring more details about what exactly he tried and why it didn’t work.
Curated.
I hadn’t heard of Jan Bloch, and he indeed seemed both like an important figure in my memetic history, and object-level interesting for getting a sense of “who has previously attempted to anticipate major technological change, and prevent catastrophe?”.
I’d be interested in posts exploring more details about what exactly he tried and why it didn’t work.