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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The universe is a salesperson. It sells us only 2 things: happiness and solutions to problems.
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Thorium reactors would fundamentally change life as energy would be virtually limitless at relatively low cost.
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How would it make life meaningfully better than cheap batteries and continued incremental solar?
For expanding minds, why not the classic chemical solutions?
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