More of a fun/bait post, on popular delusions about what futuristic societies might be like https://quaslacrimas.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/technofuturist-bs-round-i/ …
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Progressive society breeds this kind of delusional thinking in dozens of directions simultaneously. Even if you reject most--
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-- a surprising number of people are tricked by at least 1 or 2
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In this post I hit robotic unemployment, interstellar colonization, and cryonics
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Robotic unemployment came up when
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the biggest problem w/ utopianism is how utterly hollow it really is. Disillusioning realization.
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A society's happiness is not material, it is rooted in human feelings of belonging and validation.
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True. & that was Cam's point. But I'm not even at that level of complexity, I'm just raging at the illogic here
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True. Dismantling faulty economic fantasy of poli-idealism is good. I prefer looking at cognitive flaws.
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Right. This post is about identifying the substantive errors, not bringing them under general categories.
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