Meme Therapy interviews Nick Bostrom

MA number of people hold the opinion that technological change is slowing down as opposed to accelerating. Do you disagree with that assessment and if so how what
counterargument would you put to such people?

NB It depends on how you measure “technological change”. If we use long-term
trends in economic productivity growth as a general proxy for overall technological change, then it has long been accelerating (productivity is growing exponentially). But if by technological change we mean something more phenomenological - say, how much psychological adjustment the average person needs to make in a year due to changing technology - then I don’t know whether the rate of change is faster, slower, or about the same as it was a hundred years ago.

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