Re:Ask HN: What makes you pessimistic about the future?
by dredmorbius on Thursday July 14, 2022 @07:47PM
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An alternate phrasing for this topic (and one I've employed a few times) is "what are the big problems?"
This avoids presupposing a conclusion (the future is bright/dark), and focuses on specific issues, mechanisms, or dynamics.
If you're inclined to answer that you're not pessimistic, or that the future is bright, "what are the big problems?" still focuses discussion on challenges and either what makes them challenging or how they might be addressed.
There's also the hierarchy of failure (or inverting senses: requisite success chain) in problem resolution:
This avoids presupposing a conclusion (the future is bright/dark), and focuses on specific issues, mechanisms, or dynamics.
If you're inclined to answer that you're not pessimistic, or that the future is bright, "what are the big problems?" still focuses discussion on challenges and either what makes them challenging or how they might be addressed.
There's also the hierarchy of failure (or inverting senses: requisite success chain) in problem resolution:
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2fsr0g/hierarc...