jd_pressman: rationalism outlived New Atheism by rooting in hard sci-fi utopianism
jd_pressman · x · 2026-11-11
jdpressman continues his thread on rationalist culture: rat survived other forms of New Atheism and transhumanism because it was grounded in hard sci-fi rather than scientism — an affirmative belief in a utopian immortalist future that was later lost by failing to reaffirm it. Together with his earlier point that the Sequences reacted to Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, it sketches how the community drifted from utopia to x-risk.
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