This is a hard prompt. Most responses are either sarcastic or imagined tech progress news.
Straight or sarcastic, all responses exhibit long-term orientation. Actual cheerful tweets, they tend to be in-the-moment, but assume a positive long term trajectory.
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Long-term orientation => strategic thinking => scarcity => bleak world.
Transient orientation => impulse thinking => abundance => charmed world.
It’s not in-the-moment as in hedonistic avoidance/escape but trust in charmed life. Blithe spirit.
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If you talk to a Jesuit about theodicy long enough, you’ll find they hold an informed “Cosmic Optimism”. This is a stance I wish I could easily take. It’s a superpower.
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