Very interesting commentary. I get what you're saying, and I agree. I think there's something similarly paradoxical to Dunning-Kruger going on with these kind of existential concerns, too, and I think that is probably reflected in your accelerationist position. We can also see it in climate change for example, the people who actually understand it and study it are less likely to find or see anything that can actually stop or reverse it, besides the one thing that it's increasingly clear we won't do: drastically cut emissions. And the deeper you understand the actual threat and the realistic psychology around it the more overwhelming and hopeless it seems, and the less it feels worthwhile to even try to stop it.

By the time all the less-understanding, less-pessimistic people start to actually see the unavoidable long-term consequences and trends of climate change, we're going to be so far beyond having any sort of handle on it to control it, the only remaining hope is for a miracle, no matter how improbable, and if you have no hope of stopping it, then pinning your hopes on the miracle and trying to get as far ahead as you can until and unless that happens is (sadly) actually the rational choice.