How would you characterize Muskian futures in ideological terms? (Mars colonization, aggressive climate action, lots of sci-fi visions)? It's neither the basic SV neowhig libertarian future, nor the basic NYT-op-ed progressive future. Nor is it Thiel-Trump reactionary.
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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 hyper-rational transhumanism raging against perceived existential threats. He's obviously in the singularitarian/AGI sphere and believes in it fully.
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Basic SV is radically more software-centric. For consumer stuff, web and mobile apps are still the center. For enterprise, the big, deep conversations around cloud tech, networking etc. See a16z podcasts for the feel there. O’Reilly, Stripe etc are somewhere in between.
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Asimovian. Specifically the optimism-through-hard-times of the first three books of Foundation.
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PPC expansionism, or production possibility frontierism
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high-modernist utopian schemes with a flair of corporate executive savior complex




