I put him on par with climate catastrophizers. He identified some problems right, but his solutions are akin to the "stop oil" tards that generate more hate against their movement by pissing people off. Also, doesn't change that spilling oil in the ocean, causing air pollution, microplastics, etc. is still something to improve.

He should be studied and discussed in school, along with the failings of other CIA experiments and most African governments to feed their people. I'd argue Kim Jong Fatty and other nukes are a way bigger threat than powerful AI, but they can compliment each other and I could be wrong. I will also concede that promoting technology (like engineering biological immortality) could produce unforeseen greater levels of suffering, but I think the potential for good still outweighs the bad.

Most of science does not help humanity but the small percent that does (like producing more efficient grains) has reduced suffering much more than Ted's promotion of "return to monkey". You can cry about techno dystopia all you want but most of us rightfully prefer it over living Amish or monkeying on Sentinel Island. There is a happy medium in owning a small plot of farmland. I don't see us getting there by bombing enemies for attention because our writing sucks.

Some of his predictions/complaints are also just wrong. Industrial revolution (or at least the technology/peace that eventually followed) has greatly reduced world hunger. Monkeys overpopulate and crowd. Wealthy countries lead to population decline and stability.

Having a short attention span is inherently bad. I assume it is also bad for hunting. But there are other (arguably more) productive things you can do. And modern society still allows more variance than struggling-to-survive societies. Of course, being coerced/forced to take medicine is bad. But we should focus on preserving the choice to take medicine rather than an impossible task of destroying all medicine.

Hunting is a meaningless activity (akin to playing video games) if everyone else is hunting/farming enough food already. Just because the scales maybe favored toward insta-thots, goyslop and corruption, doesn't mean there aren't still productive things to do in medicine, technology, physics, energy, reducing pollution, etc.