Anybody who hates “kitsch” or “platitudes” or “sanitized” content is a Weird Pessimist. The people who produce that content are Normal Optimists.
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I think the best hope for the future is probably the Weird Pessimist/Weird Optimist/Normal Pessimist alliance.
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Normal Optimism is Winnerism. Support whoever is winning, believe whatever gives you relative social power. Follow and amplify incentive gradients. Of course it’s healthy to want to win — and a fair critique of Weird Pessimists that they have an unhealthy resentment of success.
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But throwing all resources into a zero-sum conflict destroys the possibility of any future for humans.
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There’s a Normal Optimist thing that’s *just* being supportive and encouraging, without trying to take resources or status away from anybody else, and I think it’s mostly good, just unlikely to be very influential.
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I want Weird Optimism to be the next thing in news feeds - Please tell us if you find some? - BBC had one for awhile, but it died
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Tell us more of your judging process for labelling a tweet stream? How long and involved the visit? Concluded how?
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