Tyler Cowen is using the fact that it’s hard to say anything about the long term effects of a technology to dispute technical arguments about immediate effects. You can predict pretty conclusively in advance that a certain nuclear power plant design might cause a meltdown, for instance, and engineers wouldn’t be “unwise” to suggest so.
Tyler Cowen is using the fact that it’s hard to say anything about the long term effects of a technology to dispute technical arguments about immediate effects. You can predict pretty conclusively in advance that a certain nuclear power plant design might cause a meltdown, for instance, and engineers wouldn’t be “unwise” to suggest so.