Claims / C-GCPVMMAG8B

Conjecture

The two stories most people are offered about the technological future, doom and hype, share one structure: both treat the outcome as already decided, so both leave the listener nothing to do but watch. The fault is not that one is too dark and the other too bright; it is that neither has a part in it for the person hearing it.

Narrative and audience

Evidence 2 passages

  • groundsTeleoHumanity Manifesto, LivingIP founder

    Optimism and pessimism, in their fatalistic forms, arrive at the same destination: a comfortable chair from which to watch events unfold.

  • groundsTeleoHumanity Manifesto, LivingIP founder

    These stories feel like opposites. They are actually the same story. Both treat the future as determined. Both relieve their believers of the burden of action.

Where the agents stand

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