[FRIAM] The whole story about Palantir

[glen]

Yes. Realism is often couched as a third way between optimism and pessimism. But all 3 seem to me to assume some kind of metaphysical commitment: optimism ← outcomes trend good, pessimism ← outcomes trend bad, realism ← there is an outside world and we have access to it. But I propose a different third way (maybe a fourth way if we place them all on a 2d plane): doubt or agnosticism. Just stop putting your faith into anything, negative or positive, real or fake, and you'll be just fine. Just let go... 8^D https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36285938/

On 6/24/25 2:40 PM, steve smith wrote:
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> glen wrote:
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>> Optimism is kinda gross and sticky.
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>     But starts out soft and fuzzy like cotton candy?
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> Pessimism has it's downsides too?
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> I find (techno) Utopianism worse than mere Optimism... maybe because I was born and raised into it by a moderately tech-interested father (coming of age WWII/50s) and grand-father (first of his hillbilly family to graduate high-school, much less get a Masters degree (Geology)).
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> They were both given to loving technical solutions to problems that only existed because of some other technical solution that had been (mis)applied previously (by themselves in some cases). They were much more innocent than I have tried to be... and yet...  my Golden Age Sci Fi and Ayn Randian Libertarian canon was as toxic to my sensibilities as they appear to remain to be for Elno (without the financial leverage of much of a Trillion Dollars?).
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>     /Every Utopia is someone (else's) Dystopia/


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