Fascinating - I'm having trouble understanding, however, how each of these would imagine a world in the near future. Meaning, how does this analysis become useful?
In this case I’m using CLA to contrast the four archetypes, each of which has a distinct narrative frame and thus a different view of the default future, or the future they want. For the Explorer, their image of the future is transformative and tends to focus on grand outcomes (e.g., “AI will solve climate change” or “AI will cure disease” and so on). They also think this is inevitable—so they tend to advocate for policies and actions in the present to accelerate this vision.
I used Nietzsche's phrase “will to power” in the title to suggest that these differing narratives reflect both conflict and self-interested collaboration. Depending on your theory of change (e.g., whether power is the most important factor, or a dialectical synthesis, etc.), it’s possible to imagine or reconstruct alternative futures that challenge the default mode.
Fascinating - I'm having trouble understanding, however, how each of these would imagine a world in the near future. Meaning, how does this analysis become useful?
Hi Ariel,
In this case I’m using CLA to contrast the four archetypes, each of which has a distinct narrative frame and thus a different view of the default future, or the future they want. For the Explorer, their image of the future is transformative and tends to focus on grand outcomes (e.g., “AI will solve climate change” or “AI will cure disease” and so on). They also think this is inevitable—so they tend to advocate for policies and actions in the present to accelerate this vision.
This piece in Axios links to representative examples of the Explorer: https://www.axios.com/2024/10/17/ai-manifesto-anthropic-dario-amodei
I used Nietzsche's phrase “will to power” in the title to suggest that these differing narratives reflect both conflict and self-interested collaboration. Depending on your theory of change (e.g., whether power is the most important factor, or a dialectical synthesis, etc.), it’s possible to imagine or reconstruct alternative futures that challenge the default mode.