'Paradisepilled': the new Singularity coinage saying build paradise first, saints later
bradneuberg · x · 2026-08-20
alexwg coins paradisepilled for the Singularity crowd: the conviction that humanity doesn't need to perfect itself before deserving abundance, transcendence, or the stars — build paradise first, better humans can follow.
The conventional story says we must fix human nature before earning godlike technology. The paradisisepilled view reverses it: scarcity, insecurity, and zero-sum competition are part of what make people behave badly; remove those conditions, expand the frontier, and give humanity room to become better. As Captain Sisko put it, "It's easy to be a saint in paradise." The mistake is treating sainthood as the entrance requirement for paradise rather than one of its possible consequences.
TL;DR: Abundance first. Saints later. Stars now.
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