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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Good news is you can lighten up, you are very wrong about things being boring or life lacking adventure, unless we get dragged back into the pre-industrial era by postmodernists or others, boring/low tech will be the least of your worries. Next 30 years - interesting times.
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WWW3 would make you forget your horizons and back aches. But nice thread. BTW, if time is infinite, math says your conscience is eternal, so no need to fret.
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this is why star wars/dune will always be more important than star trek/foundation :)
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I really think there will be some kind of breakthrough consciousness that will develop a spacefaring body-type and gtfo out of our sphere of intra-solar system shenanigans.
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isnt it subjective what mind-expanding is?
People find solving problems or even sititing on a rock (meditation) mind expanding.
I think you may have the same genetic variant as me that makes us dopamine insensitive and need for extra stimuli 😜










