Wizard Accelerationist

I’m not an accelerationist wizard, I’m a wizard accelerationist.

I want to make D&D real.

I think we should have more adventures, more enchantment in the world. We should push technology as far as possible until it becomes something we no longer understand. Reverse Clarke’s Law maneuver.

Honestly, my life is already magical, filled with enchanted objects, ruled by powers beyond my ken. I walk about the city, my magic earrings whispering instructions beamed from the scrying stone in my pocket. A magical chariot picks me up and drives me around. I argue with spirits in my phone.

Potions? I have so many potions. I put a potion on my face to make me stay young. Potion to enhance my brain. There’s even a GMO kombucha shot that cures hangovers, if that’s not a potion I don’t know what it is. l have it on monthly subscription.

There’s a magic portal on my wall that shows art or videos of any kind. I can watch live views of beautiful places on earth like it’s my living room window. Meanwhile my computer spirits talk to me and help me figure out everything from recipes to philosophy. They’re infinitely patient and weird and funny and if you let them do their own thing for too long they might go haywire and destroy the world. We invented the sorcerer’s apprentice from the famous Disney movie, [THIS CONTENT REMOVED UNDER COPYRIGHT CLAIM BY OPENAI].

The future I see is a Points Of Light setting, where large parts of the world have been left wild, a web of green belts re-terraformed into dense ecosystems but haunted by dragons and chimeras born of our strange genetic experimentation. The world back in climate equilibrium, managed by some arcane forces hidden in one of the many overgrown ruins.

Cute little villages are scattered through this wilderness where people may live a simple life. They can steward the land, and hold backward beliefs, and grow giant plants that are magically nutritious and delicious at once, and forget that those too are born of strange experimentation. The type of place where a young orphan might grow up running free, wondering about their destiny.

The points of light in that darkness are the towering megacities, dense with trade, connected through a network of rapid transit points, where adventurers and other leveled characters work and fight and study and intrigue. A world of heroes and villains. A world where you can Do Things.

Again, we already live in this world. We just don’t act like it. Right now we’re in a race between several groups of wizards and clerics who discovered a new type of summoning seal and immediately rushed to build the biggest one, in the hopes they can summon their god to the Material Plane faster than the competition.

We should focus on accelerating magical R&D to superempower individuals. This creates a highly complex game theoretic situation. As different schools of magic branch farther down their own tech trees they will compete and cooperate with each other in a competitive, asymmetric, dynamic balance of power, a multipolar ecology of status ladders offering meaningful roles in society with ever more high level quests. Guild of thieves. School for wizards.

The highest leverage thing you can do right now is to make the world more magical. Everybody can play their part. For me it’s wizard stuff. What role do you want to play?

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