
⏳ Futures Theorist | 🎙 Host, @FUTURESPodcast | 🤖 Director, @VirtualFutures
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In @Futurism’s #ScienceNonfiction I meet 8 incredible companies who are rewriting the rules of what's possible.
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Technologies that once only existed in science fiction are beginning to show up in our homes, cars, and workplaces.
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What if human consciousness isn’t as special as we’d like to believe? What if it’s actually been a hindrance to our intelligence, and the most capable machines will be the ones that aren’t conscious, precisely because they don’t have subjective experience getting in the way?
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Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
🇬🇧 What happened to Britain's appetite for risk? How do we reignite a spirit of innovation?
🎤 I'll be speaking on the Deep Tech Stage at 3PM today (Weds 10 June 2026) with @takeonGravity & @momincubators at @LDNTechWeek.
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AI companies don't just want you to use intelligence. They want you to subscribe to it. The more thinking you outsource, the more agency you surrender.
Human writing has the power to create realities. Which is why you should avoid outsourcing it to the machine.
"I could be misunderstanding him tho I'm not like, the most informed person."
You and every accelerationist on X, @Grimezsz.
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For clarity I also think Nick land is really historically important because it's taken like 20 years for a bunch of the smartest people to be forming actual robust responses - it's cultural evolution at its finest. I also don't think Nick land is actually a nihilist(?) from what I understand he just thinks the cybernetic system is a more beautiful and rational idea than humanity and we shud serve that rather than ourselves. I could be misunderstanding him tho I'm not like, the most informed person. But I think his actual beliefs are kind of good he's just an insanely good horror writer which makes him seem evil and if we're meant to survive then we need to be galvanized by an elite level of terror anyway
Nick has more in common with Thomas Pynchon.
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For clarity I also think Nick land is really historically important because it's taken like 20 years for a bunch of the smartest people to be forming actual robust responses - it's cultural evolution at its finest. I also don't think Nick land is actually a nihilist(?) from what I understand he just thinks the cybernetic system is a more beautiful and rational idea than humanity and we shud serve that rather than ourselves. I could be misunderstanding him tho I'm not like, the most informed person. But I think his actual beliefs are kind of good he's just an insanely good horror writer which makes him seem evil and if we're meant to survive then we need to be galvanized by an elite level of terror anyway
Slow clap for falsely pathologizing doomerism.
Dans le manifeste "techno-optimiste" de Marc Andreessen, il y a une phrase qui m'a marqué :
"Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas."
Nos ennemis ne sont pas des mauvaises personnes. Ce sont des mauvaises idées.
Prenons Jancovici. L'homme est brillant, sincère, travailleur. Il ne se lève pas le matin en se disant qu'il va nuire à l'humanité. Mais l'idée qu'il porte la décroissance, le rationnement, la frugalité érigée en horizon civilisationnel est une idée profondément destructrice. Elle prend des esprits brillants et les transforme en commissaires politiques d'un futur appauvri.
Et le plus fascinant, c'est ce que cette idée fait aux gens qui l'adoptent.
Dans mon entourage, une grosse partie de mes amis est sur cette ligne décroissantiste, avec tout le package qui va avec. L'argent c'est mal mais ils en veulent. Il faut moins prendre l'avion mais ils rêvent de voyager partout. Il faut consommer moins mais ils ne renoncent à rien de ce qu'ils aiment vraiment.
Et tous ont un point commun : ils sont déprimés. L'un d'eux m'a même confié qu'il était sous antidépresseurs.
Ce n'est pas un hasard. C'est mécanique.
Quand tu crois que ton désir de vivre, de créer, de t'élever est moralement suspect tu te détruis de l'intérieur. Tu passes ta vie à t'excuser d'exister. Tu vis dans la dissonance permanente entre ce que ton corps veut (plus, mieux, plus loin) et ce que ton idéologie t'ordonne (moins, sobre, immobile).
D'où ma théorie :
Quand on pense quelque chose de fondamentalement faux décroissance, communisme, extrémisme religieux (de tout ordre) ce n'est qu'une question de temps avant que ça devienne vraiment destructeur.
D'abord pour soi. Puis pour les autres.
Les mauvaises idées tuent. Lentement chez ceux qui y croient, brutalement chez ceux qui les subissent.
C'est pour ça que la bataille des idées n'est pas un luxe d'intellectuel. C'est la bataille la plus importante de notre époque.
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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An Oxford academic has warned that students using AI can obtain a degree without reading any books
Katherine Rundell warns that reliance on AI is creating a ‘vast counterfeiting of knowledge’ in universities 👇
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