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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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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Does the “humans need to become a multi-planetary species, to insure against planetary destruction” add a bit of anxiety?
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It feels like the hardware version of the SV platform/ecosystem play. Have a vision, create the pieces in a way that could support that vision, but don't create the pieces so narrowly that they couldn't also create many other valuable futures.
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I might actually describe it as indefinite-optimistic futurism.
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To riff: The other reason it's not accelerationism is because it has some distinct, if nebulous goals. Acceleration is an instrumental instead of an intrinsic value.
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Wholesome Accelerationism.
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I'm not sure that a different mood would be very meaningful, but is there a difference in terms of what seems practical between the two?
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