It sort of breaks the determinate/indeterminate optimism divide. The anchor pieces are determinate, but the broader sensibility is indeterminate. It is "approach problems from first principles with an element of wacky imagination"
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I'd call it accelerationism except it lacks the attendant anxious mood. Though it has a lot of momentum, it lacks a visibly anxious sense of reactive urgency/race against time. There's something almost calming about it. Like it's a high-speed ASMR future.
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I think I'm guilty of not taking it seriously enough in the past because even though I'm a fan of it, it always felt like a cartoon future. I'm a fan of Muskism the way I'm a fan of Rick and Morty.
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It’s a certain strain of futurism that hasn’t been prevalent for decades now, not quite utopian but an optimistic one predicated on scientific application. I think it vibes very strongly with trans humanists. Progressive futurism?
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Seems to me like the basic SV technooptimist future. Maybe it's just my corner of twitter, but I get the general idea of ignoring the direct approach to government dysfunction and just overpowering it with technological advance.
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Nah SV is laden with different imagery
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Asimovian. Specifically the optimism-through-hard-times of the first three books of Foundation.
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Interesting, Musk is a bona fide 1st Foundation technocrat though. The whole optimism/guided scenario angle is heavily predicated on the 2nd Foundation social scientists though. Musk is as far from them as humanly possible imo, after Zuckerberg maybe
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Adolescent amoralism
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PPC expansionism, or production possibility frontierism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production%E2%80%93possibility_frontier …
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Is there a synonym for frontierism that starts with "P" so we could abbreviate it as 3P or P3?
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