Biden and Trump futures seem kinda the same not because there’s a symmetry (there isn’t), but because both are manifestations of zemblanity, just to different degrees. We can only hope for less bad luck with Biden, not an actual serendipitous turn.
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Zemblanity = unsurprisingly unlucky, sense of doom
Serendipity = surprisingly lucky, sense of hope
Bahramdipity = serendipity squashed by authoritarianism
Demons of zemblanity are still there. The difference is with Biden we’d be attempting an exorcism instead of giving in.
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Trump is basically this
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We’re *hoping* Biden can be this, though it’s not clear he has the strength
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I am far more hopeful about both the declining cost of solar energy and the fact that institutions like the IEA now recognize it to be the case than I am about Biden
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