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The key wider issue revealed here is that there is no single "precautionary principle." I'm with the researchers from African nations devastated by malaria. You?

America tried to ban fake photos in 1912. The nation has been wrestling with manipulated images since long before AI. Pessimists Archive freethink.com/the-digital-fr…

"Learn to code" they told us (1987) newspapers.com/article/the-bi…

York News-Times • Mon, Sep 26, 1927Page 4

Air pollution kills 3,000 people every year in NYC. As many as 9/11 — every. single. year. Andrew Cuomo, is this really your position? You want to shut down nuclear while combustion engine cars and power plants ravage the health of New Yorkers?

The Flint Journal · Sunday, November 02, 1969 newspapers.com/article/the-fl…

Optimism sounds like a sales pitch. Pessimism sounds like someone trying to help you.

Before the days of "adult coloring books," people often skillfully colored black and white book illustrations. This is from a 1915 book of satirical cartoons by the great E.J. Sullivan, hand-colored by the previous owner. Look at the detail and the shading on the coloring!

Pessimism has bi-partisan appeal

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Before incumbents attacked lab grown meat, they attacked lab grown ice… newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-war-on-l…

Chilling innovation

btw, this is the thing that makes fake ice

“Why quarrel about comic books when radio programs are so bad? Is the query of a couple hundred letters.” “What are effects of radio addiction on our young ones?” (1949) newspapers.com/article/the-sa…

Groan. In 1918, most lumber in North America came from old-growth forests (adiós, California redwoods!). These trees grew slowly over centuries in dense, competitive conditions, resulting in very tight growth rings and naturally dense, strong wood. These forests largely don’t

Both the motion picture and the recording industries are built on (named after!) technologies that replace live performers with technological simulacra, decried at their birth as heralding the end of human creativity. Just thinking out loud.

.Chris Murphy 🟧 cites *nuclear energy* as a success story for American regulation. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has all but strangled nuclear energy in America.

GTA moral panic actually helped it become so big so fast.