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   phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 18:37:13 JST phiofx

   There seems to be a trend of people declaring on the profiles what shade of #doomerism / #optimism they feel attached to. A sign of our times I suppose.

   My sense is that this more an emotional / character aspect than any purely rational argument.

   But I am justifying my own (mostly) optimistic stance by stealing Pascal's timeless argument:

   Even under the assumption that there is no hope, the potential benefits of thinking there *is* hope are so vast as to make betting on it rational.