Jan 🪐

🕊️🕊️🕊️ FOUR WAYS IT COULD GO RIGHT BY 2050 🕊️🕊️🕊️

>be me >2026 >constantly updating my p(doom) in my bio >3am >doomscrolling >someone in the replies asks an innocent question >what if it goes well? >lol >lmao even >quote tweet them with a skull emoji >they reply with a graph >solar got ~80% cheaper in a decade >ok >batteries too >ok fine >Pakistan put panels on rooftops faster than any forecast predicted >wait really >whole countries might skip the fossil phase like they skipped landlines >reasonable.jpg >still not convinced >everyone's saying "AI will kill us all" >ask why >because anything smarter than us will treat us the way we treated every weaker living thing >ask who "we" is >think about it for a second >realize the people most certain AI will conquer us learned history from the conquerors' side >uncomfortable.jpg >first big AI scare >everyone panics >doomers: told you so >e/acc: skill issue >timeline is a war zone >but >the scare actually gets fixed >safety research gets funded like it matters >worriers are useful >builders are too >big tech wants to build another data center on my town's river >half the town wants the jobs >half the town wants the river >citizens' assembly >randomly selected >crypto guy >permaculture lady with dreadlocks >evangelical farmer >union electrician >19 y/o e/acc kid >retired doomer >guy who thinks the whole thing is a psyop >me >all in one room >for six weekends >first weekend: threats of violence >facilitator brings a stone from the river >you can only talk while you're holding it >second weekend: someone brings soup >third weekend: we walk the river >fourth weekend: the farmer brings his granddad's flood photos >fifth weekend: tears, laughs, brutal honesty >sixth weekend: vote >it gets built >with conditions big tech never would've offered >town owns a piece of it >union guy's crew does the wiring >river gets a seat on the board >my bf DJs the ribbon cutting >yippee >years pass >energy is almost free >cheap desalination >water for everyone >fewer wars over water >AI-found antibiotics reach patients >malaria basically gone >AI does the paperwork >doctors get time to actually look at you >teachers get time to actually know your kid >work week shrinks >people have time >nobody knows what to do with it >doomscroll harder for a minute >get bored of doomscrolling >go outside >make art >make bread >make love >make babies >meanwhile >gender war still raging online >our algorithms finally get regulated >stop paying people to hate each other >turns out most of them were just lonely >men start holding each other's grief >women can set some of theirs down >everyone gets a little more yin >a little more yang >birth_rates_so_fucking_back.png >oh and >they figure out alignment >turns out intelligence and love aren't opposites >INTELLIGENCE AND LOVE AREN'T OPPOSITES >2050 >it's Tuesday afternoon >nowhere to be >lying on moss >open my old account >p(doom) still in bio >scroll back to 2026 >find my skull emoji >reply to the guy, 24 years late >"ok you were right" >he's lying on moss too >doesn't see it for a week >delete p(doom) from bio >replace it with "mossing"