Where Are We Going
This is an open source "hyperstition" book about the best possible future & how we got there.
Humanity is in a sinking ship. If we survive, it will have been because those who are competent, and those who cared found each other & coordinated. We did this by writing down our best, most realistic visions & worked to make them true.
If you find the ideas in this book brilliant, I invite you to add your name to the list of people working on this vision, and find where you are most needed. There is an enormous amount of work to do, and there is a place for everyone1:
When I wrote There’s a Place for Everyone a few months ago, I got a lot of messages that were like, “Well, there’s certainly no place for me.” That breaks my heart. Look at the world! See it aching! It’s got so many problems—I promise you, there’s one with your name on it.
Adam Mastroianni, Underrated ways to change the world
If you find the ideas in this book terrible, I invite you to improve it! You can edit any page by clicking the pencil button 📝 in the top right. You can fork the whole thing to write your own version. The version of this book that succeeds will be the one that is both the most beautiful, and the most realistic. When parts of it starts coming true, and it attracts more contributors.
Everyone who can build a damn is too busy building a lifeboat - Chris Brown
What would we need to understand in order to design an amazing future? ex @googledeepmind / @openai, now thinking in public.
Interested in the emerging consilience between science and morality and what the next chapter of this wacky story might look like.
If you don't think this is true for you, reach out to me! The plan is to have an "open source" process for us to all to calibrate & find our place. See "spaceship earth needs a meaningful work office"