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   Jonas (adoranten@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 02:44:41 JST Jonas

   Surely, one is expected to see this a sign of the times…? #nofuture
   https://tldr.nettime.org/@tb/112307795699033589

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     felix stalder (festal@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 02:44:37 JST felix stalder

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     @adoranten I think from a point of view of a history of ideas, longtermism is, indeed, a “vacuous intellectual movement”. But this is missing the point, ideas never become hegemonic by their internal sophistication or coherence. They become hegemonic because they serve a purpose, to provide meaning, foreground problems that can be solved and push into the background those that cannot (ie. climate change is down-graded to existential risk, i.e. only a problem is wipes out the technological infrastructure).

     They are, in a way, an organic expression of power as much as a resource to power.

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     Jonas (adoranten@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 02:44:38 JST Jonas

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     My own take: Longtermism was a vacuous intellectual movement to begin with. As with a lot of Silicon Valley-endorsed ideology, its primary function was a self-serving one, in practice; a fig leaf to legitimize accelerationism, hyper-scale monopolism and oligarchy.

     Rasmus Fleischer repeated this.
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     Jonas (adoranten@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Apr-2024 02:44:39 JST Jonas

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     Context:
     https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes