Does “prefer this outcome to extinction or disempowerment, though I wish there were more pleasant current-human futures available” count as “enthusiastically endorse”?
Not the way I’d use those words, nope. The first is a low bar; the second is extremely high, and includes a specific emotional reaction in it. I haven’t seen any plausible vision of 2040 that I’d enthusiastically endorse, whether it’s business-as-usual or dismantling stars, but it’s not hard to come up with futures that are preferable to the end of love in the universe.
Does “prefer this outcome to extinction or disempowerment, though I wish there were more pleasant current-human futures available” count as “enthusiastically endorse”?
Not the way I’d use those words, nope. The first is a low bar; the second is extremely high, and includes a specific emotional reaction in it. I haven’t seen any plausible vision of 2040 that I’d enthusiastically endorse, whether it’s business-as-usual or dismantling stars, but it’s not hard to come up with futures that are preferable to the end of love in the universe.