technological progress
3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Blake Masters · across every show →
Everything said about technological progress, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Jan 2, 2019
Chris Dixon: Tech pessimism stems from asymmetry in imagining future jobs
“I think one reason people are pessimistic in general about technological progress is it's, there's an asymmetry in that it's very easy to imagine the jobs that are destroyed and very hard to imagine the ones that are created.”
Sep 27, 2025 negative
Lazzarin: Tech progress drives declining fertility by inflating parenthood's opportunity cost
“In some sense, like fertility is declining because the opportunity cost of this suffering is massive, right? It's a massive cost. Now it's totally worth it. I know the hackneyed thing you hear from parents, like all the time, like it's horrible. Also, it's gre…”