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- Anthony Watts Independent and irreverent look at the turbulent world of climate change
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Optimism
- Bjorn Lomborg Getting the facts straight
- Brian Wang's NextBigFuture Optimistic Science & Technology Future Website
- Grey Enlightenment Conservatively optimistic economics/finance
- John McCarthy: Sustained Progress How Scientific and Technological Progress can be Sustained
- Julian Simon Online works of Julian Simon, eternal optimist
- Lifeboat Foundation blog Blog of the futurist Lifeboat Foundation
- Matt Ridley Rational Optimism
- Mike Rowe Works Foundation Correcting the Skills gap
- Patri Friedman and Seasteading Projects of Patri Friedman, grandson of Milton, son of David
- Peter H. Diamandis' website X Prize, Singularity University, Planetary Resources, etc.
- Ray Kurzweil Kurzweil’s Singularity
- Robert Bryce Better Living Through Technology
- Seasteading Institute Quest for Free Living on the Oceans
- The Arts Mechanical An exploration of the technologies that affect our lives
Category Archives: Optimism
Elon Musk, Peter Zeihan, Peter Diamandis On the Future
Will the Future Be More Abundant? Unlike the billionaires of the nihilist left, Elon Musk wants to see more people in the world. A lot more people. According to Musk, the overpopulation narrative is a big lie. The video just below is a … Continue reading
Posted in Elon Musk, expansive future, Optimism, Peter Zeihan
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NBC News 1983: In the 1990s We Will All Die From Climate Change… Count On It!
Note that the female news anchor above, Jessica Savitch, died later in 1983 when her automobile landed upside down at the bottom of a canal, causing her to drown. If such an accident were to happen to a prominent news … Continue reading
An Abundant Expansive Human Future For a Change
We are living in a dark age of pessimism. Everywhere we look we are shown images of holocaust, apocalypse, and ruin. These dark images are what our media shows us, what our educational institutions show us, and what our corrupt … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Future, Government, Groupthink, Optimism
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Do Oil Wells Re-Fill Themselves?
The world was supposed to be out of oil by now, according to the oil prophets of former years. The online “peak oil” universe of the late 1990s and early 2000s trumpeted the imminent collapse of the giant middle eastern … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Energy, Natural Resources, Oil Prices, Optimism, Peak Oil
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Ask Me and I Will Play
Everyone has a song to sing, a story to tell, and love that they hold inside. Whether they are willing to bravely take the stage and put it out there for everyone to see, depends upon how their brain weighs … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Development, Optimism, psychology
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And Now the Bad News
A Daunting Historical Cycle Threatens Human Ingenuity Humans rely on their minds to solve the inevitable problems that arise in the course of their existence in the universe. But as we grow more clever, human existence grows trickier: “The world … Continue reading
Posted in Donald Trump, Dysgenics, Optimism
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Things are Getting Less Expensive
Consider the modern television set: The last TV I bought was a 43-inch smart TV that cost me roughly $500 in 2016; it’s no longer in my possession, but my old roommate is still using it to his great joy. … Continue reading
Nihilists and Doomers Come Cheap and Stupid; Competent Optimists Have to Know Something
… pessimism is self-defeating. It feeds on itself, promoting paralysis and more pessimism. It’s a dead end. __ Source The Human Future Could Be Grand if We Would Let it Be “As time passes, in the main the human condition … Continue reading
Posted in expansive future, Future, Nihilism, Optimism, Postmodernism
Tagged leftist idiocy
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A Safer, More Abundant World
Safer Forms of Reliable Power For advanced human societies, reliable and affordable power & heat is a life or death issue. It would be wisest for such societies to pursue the safest forms of reliable/affordable power available. But who ever … Continue reading
Mind the Brain
The better you can understand your brain, the better you can understand your own mind. And understanding your own mind is an open door to self-liberation and freedom. Short of that, every human being is a slave to mindless habits, … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Human Brain, Learning Theory, Optimism, Philosophy
Tagged Brain, Jordan Peterson, Mastery
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Arthur Robinson PhD: A Competent Man
A Portrait of Competence Art Robinson received a BS in Chemistry from Cal Tech — where he was a student of Linus Pauling — and a PhD in Chemistry from UCSD, where he taught chemistry for a few years before … Continue reading
How to Find Happiness in an Unhappy World
Dimensions of Happiness Happiness is almost never where you think you will find it. If you become too impatient — if you never learn how to set the table and allow happiness to come to dinner — you may set … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Economics, Human Brain, Optimism, Philosophy
Tagged emotions, happiness
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What to do If You Win the Lottery
The odds are against you. But someone will win the next big lottery. If it happens to be you, wouldn’t you rather be prepared? Consider some advice from people whose job it is to guide recipients of unexpected windfalls. You … Continue reading
Why Many People Seem so Angry and Miserable
Unhappy Habits of Many People Seeing Themselves as Victims: Unhappy persons see their lives as out of their own control. Being helpless victims absolves them from all responsibility for their lives. Chronic Pessimism: A pessimistic outlook usually becomes self-fulfilling. It … Continue reading
Malthusian Monkeys Screech of Doom
Update: New steel alloy has strength to weight ratio of titanium at one tenth the cost (Nature Abstract) When Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, and John Harte wagered Julian Simon $10,000 that the cost of commodities and natural resources would always … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Creativity, Doom, Fertility, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Materials, Natural Resources, Ocean, Optimism, Peak Oil, Science, Technology
Tagged Green Corruption, Green Idiocy, TFR
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Can Earth Support 100 Billion Humans Comfortably?
Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist, wrote his book The Population Bomb in 1968. In it he warned of doom and gloom – resource depletion, species extinction and a human population so large that as a species we would face … Continue reading
Posted in Doom, Economics, Environment, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Natural Resources, Optimism, Skyscrapers, Technology
Tagged Green Idiocy
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Fountain of Youth: Pouring Young Blood Into Old Bodies?
The search for the fountain of youth is following many different paths, including the “seven-fold path” of SENS, suspended animation via cryonic vitrification, tweaking the immune system to boost human resilience, increasing the length of telomeres, regenerative medicine, stem cells, … Continue reading
It’s Alive: Convert Empty Shells into Livable Houses, Quickly
To convert any weather-resistant shell into a modern functioning, versatile house, you need to give the shell a modern heart: Plumbing, HVAC, Electricity, water heating, bathroom, kitchen with appliances, plus gas and data services as required. All of those functions … Continue reading
Pessimism: It’s Easier and More Natural
Think of “Pessimism” as the default state for “experts” and “know it alls” …our innate tendency to be pessimistic but also want to be certain about the future means that “the gloom-mongers have it easy,” as author Dan Gardner argues … Continue reading
Posted in Folly of Prediction, Future, Optimism, Technology
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The Future: Problems are Guaranteed; Doom Isn’t
We are living in an apocalyptic age. We have been living in the apocalyptic age for many decades — even centuries and more. Humans are strangely attracted to the apocalyptic mindset. Perhaps the doomer mentality is an intentional but subconscious … Continue reading
Posted in Doom, Environment, Natural Resources, Optimism
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