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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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Muskism is basically “we can actually do real things that matter” where SV libertarianism and standard-issue progressivism both boil down to “we can get some legislation passed and force the outgroup to be more virtuous”
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Projective Capitalism. Musk's future takes an *averaged* trajectory of the last 50 years of sci fi cultural imagination and combines it with economic feasibility.
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IMO it's a slightly more boring (but more likely) future reality than than that proposed by SV - which wins interestingness via its combination of psychedelics / conservation / marxism heritage