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People in the early 1900s used to dream enthusiastically about the 21st century. They held ambitious world's fairs to celebrate humanity's ambitions, published glowing pop-sci articles, and wrote hopeful futuristic fiction. Who does that anymore? Who gets positively excited about what the future holds for our great-great-grandchildren? It feels like the 21st century, despite being just one average human lifespan away, already lies behind some inscrutable (and perhaps impassable) Great Filter caused by some combination of technological singularity, AI takeover, collapse of late-stage capitalism, demographic decline, societal rot, deadly pandemic, and/or climate catastrophe. It's as if nobody dares being bullish about humanity's future due to a growing collective (and largely unspoken) unease
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I think it's the not knowing. I forget who it was, but someone said on a podcast I was listening to recently. Every generation seems to feel like it's living at the most important time in history, but there's some pretty compelling evidence that our generation really is approaching the climax of the human story. The trouble is we don't know if it's the story of high sci-fi tech utopia, or a tragic tale of self destruction.
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It’s difficult to deny that our generation’s temporal parochialism may be eventually correct when looking at the indicators from the Anthropocene
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