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I find that a lot of future doomerism is rooted in not doing anything now: “We have to build a world where human society retreats and tens of millions die alon
by zmgsabst 3y ago
I find that a lot of future doomerism is rooted in not doing anything now:
“We have to build a world where human society retreats and tens of millions die alone unsupported, because [insert warning about centuries away based on dubious assumptions].”
We don’t have to, we’re celebrating failure because of nebulous future concerns that seem post hoc rationalizations.
I think at a societal level, abuses of psychology in marketing, PR, propaganda, and all its euphemisms have driven us collectively mad.
- jvanderbot 3y agoMy mental model is that people look at a small amount of data we have about advanced civilizations (ours), fit lines to those few, noisy, highly clustered points, or worse, assume exponential when it's really logistic / S curve. Then you can predict any old doom you want. The future is lots of things, but stable or predictable it ain't.