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Dark optimism

I legitimately believe humanity is about to undergo an explosion of technology, creativity, and social innovation that will dwarf everything else in history. No one has ever seen seven billion minds linked together before. None of us can even imagine.

The attentional singularity has begun.

I’m optimistic not because there are no problems, but because there are so many people and tools to solve them.

Our society will become stewards of the planetary biology, or it will perish. It’s going to take a lot of people. Maybe everybody. But the cool thing about building the new world is you have a say in how it is built.

We just went through a planetary ego death. Everyone in the world has liquified and become a butterfly. There’s no way to predict the future from the past. Stagnation is over, for good or bad. https://x.com/NotGyro/status/1452667355990011918?t=mAnfdv-z5nN-VcM6KGiIKA&s=19

The funny thing is it’s going to come from so many angles at once that nobody is going to get everything right. Everyone is going to feel like society has gone off in some crazy direction and they stay the same, but really everyone will be going in crazy directions all at once.

This is a great reason to stay humble. If your attitude to new subcultures, or technologies, or types of art, is to immediately doubt and attack them, well… wagmi, but ur pretty close to nmi. The future will look nothing like the past, nor like the past’s idea of the future.

The difference between my optimism and toxic idealism” is that I have already looked into the darkness. I was abyssgazing before the black pill was invented. I just think humanity will pull through. We always have so far.

It’s called dark optimism.”

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