Futurism

Edited by Multicore, et al. last updated 8th Feb 2025

Futurism is speculation about technologies or social trends that might exist in the near or distant future.

Less Wrong's favorite type of futurism is speculation about AI risk. Other speculative future technologies include life extension, mind uploading, nanotechnology, and space colonization.

For efforts to predict future trends see Forecasting & Prediction and Forecasts (Lists of).

See also: Transhumanism, Fun Theory

Posts tagged Futurism

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123What will 2040 probably look like assuming no singularity?

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Daniel Kokotajlo, ChristianKl

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163Succession

Richard_Ngo

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138AI Timelines via Cumulative Optimization Power: Less Long, More Short

jacob_cannell

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108A review of Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall

jasoncrawford

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106The first future and the best future

KatjaGrace

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94The Track Record of Futurists Seems ... Fine

HoldenKarnofsky

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93What is malevolence? On the nature, measurement, and distribution of dark traits

David Althaus, Chi Nguyen, Clare

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90Transformative VR Is Likely Coming Soon

jimrandomh

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88Techno-humanism is techno-optimism for the 21st century

Richard_Ngo

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88BCIs and the ecosystem of modular minds

beren

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88Unbounded Scales, Huge Jury Awards, & Futurism

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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74Winston Churchill, futurist and EA

jasoncrawford

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66Man in the Arena

Richard_Ngo

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52Why is the Future So Absurd?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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47SpaceX will have massive impact in the next decade

ChristianKl

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