2022: Welcome to the Great Filter, population, us. You’re stuck on this godforsaken planet full of hippies, there’s nothing to do besides solving increasingly onerous problems and retreating to increasingly escaped realities.
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Futures as sound and fury signifying nothing…The way to dusty species death
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We’re not even likely to have a Morbo announcing doom
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A weird blindsspot of tech culture, a different problem with solutionism is that small-minded investors and entrepreneurs reduce innovation to “solutions to problems.” That’s easily the least interesting kind of innovation. Horizon-expanding innovations are misunderstood.
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Tech critics don’t like solutionism because of legibilizing high modernism, externalities, dehumanizing effects etc. I am fine with all that. I don’t like them because they are horizon-blind.
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Solutions to problems bore me. They’re important but not that interesting. Without a bunch of horizon expanding, mind expanding generative things going on, there’s no real point to solving problems is there.
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Nothing wrong with it. But if there’s no new adventures that make the problems worth solving why bother? To me relief from the painful burdens of life is not an end in itself.
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what’s wrong with solving onerous problems? nothing more fun imo
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Epistemic nihilism powered by ontological stagnation
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A good way to summarize this view… if I magically discovered a cure for cancer tomorrow m, I’d be sort of abstractly happy for people with cancer but not particularly more fulfilled personally or find life more meaningful.
Aliens landing though… yay!
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Ugly-ass aliens will be exactly as fulfilling as Gorgeous Green People. Beauty is a solution to a problem. Possibilities feeding meaningfulness are pre-aesthetic.
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depends if aliens are sexy or not???
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This thread sponsored by an acute lower back ache I’m dealing with today (while on a short road trip). Between spasms the thought that hits me forcefully is: “what’s the point of solving back aches if no prospect of warp drives?”
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Fusion or some other nearly free energy source might be really cool and mind-expanding 🤔
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The universe is a salesperson. It sells us only 2 things: happiness and solutions to problems.
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Warp drives would simply allow us to snuff out multiple cradles of sentient life. Without them, it would take far more effort than we could possibly muster, if destructive, to destroy any legacy except our own.
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I’m down. Death to the infidel little green mean if that’s the cost of hitchhiking the galaxy.
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I would reverse that question heartily and without remorse. What use warp drives if your thoracic vertebrae clicks when you pick something off the ground.
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Please look up Stuart McGill; he has the most rational approach to back pain that I have seen. An anti-guru; his motto is "It depends." I recovered completely from acute injury and chronic back pain using his approach.







