marko bajlovic

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We think of fate as an outdated superstition. In a secular world the future is ours to make. Yet our discourse about the future seems to be littered with inevitabilities: we are routinely informed that technological progress, war, AI, collapse, utopia and dystopia are inevitable. What is fate but the inevitable? On the more idiosyncratic fringes of AI discourse things get even weirder: we find self fulfilling prophecies, hyperstition, retrocausality and embedded agents as time travellers. I will argue that these are both manifestations of the same attitude to the future which I am dubbing neo-fatalism. I will try to explain what neo-fatalism is, how it operates both practically and metaphysically, and why understanding it is important for navigating discussions about the future. Neo-fatalism is characterised by fate that is contingent, emergent and immanent. It operates through self fulfilling prophecies, and it implies a metaphysics of time in which the future and the present are in constant interaction. The...