Why rigorous long-term thinking always converges to extreme outcomes

A deep-dive essay argues that any rigorous modeling of the long-term future, qualitative or quantitative, inevitably converges to extreme states like utopia or dystopia, because model inference keeps applying rules until reaching a stable—and typically extreme—equilibrium.

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