Tim Hwang: RSI plus a bottlenecky world will make late 2020s feel temporally split
_FelixSimon_ · x · 2026-11-11
Quoting Tim Hwang's thesis: the coexistence of recursive self-improvement with a fundamentally bottlenecky world will define the late 2020s—rich "hyperfuture" living alongside large swaths of unchanged or even regressing social practice, producing a "temporal redshift" in perception. Felix Simon adds: "The future is unevenly distributed."
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