01 / Diagnosis

MISERABILISM

The strange belief that the worst future is the most intelligent one.

Risk is a problem to solve. Miserabilism is the assumption that solving it would be naive.

02 / The reflex

EVERY POSSIBILITY MEETS AN OBJECTION.

The problem is not objection. The problem is when objection becomes the end of thought.

Abundant energy

Then improve the grid. An objection can become a design task.

Automation removes compulsory labour

Then survival should not depend on preserving unnecessary labour.

Universal private tutoring

Then design for agency, verification and human choice—not for scarcity.

Faster science

Then make claims answer to experiments. Capability does not abolish verification.

03 / Mechanism

Each reflexive veto removes a branch before anyone asks whether the obstacle is technically, politically or institutionally solvable.

“Pessimism can feel like rigor because it never has to build.”

04 / The possibility gap

We should also practice success.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

Essential question. Keep it.

WHAT COULD GO RIGHT?

The neglected question.

WHAT WOULD HAVE TO BE TRUE?

The question that turns imagination into research.

05 / Posters

06 / Exit condition

The future does not owe us improvement. That is precisely why it has to be designed.