"It's becoming clear that a huge part of what generative AI offers is just helping people avoid feeling uncomfortable feelings.
Don't want to push through the cognitive discomfort of writing your own essay? Let AI write it.
Want a friend who will always validate your ideas and never tell you you're fulla shit? We've got the perfect companion for you.
Don't want to risk being rejected when you ask a girl out? Date this chatbot who will never tell you no.
Don't want to feel the grief of losing a loved one? Here's an app that will create a chatbot replacement for them so you can pretend they never left.
Don't want to go through all the mental and emotional labor of learning a new skill, building a healthy romantic partnership, or creating a work of art? GenAI has got you covered.
It's the next level of services designed to help the denizens of dystopia avoid their feelings and sedate their emotions into a coma while the world goes to shit. It's the same reason they kept alcohol legal while banning psychedelics that puts us in touch with our feelings, and why they feed us all the TV, streaming platforms, and social media scrolling we can stand.
Our rulers want us dumb, distracted, vapid and dissociated. And they definitely don't want us feeling the horror, grief and rage we should all be experiencing in response to this nightmare of a civilization they have designed for us."
This applies to any drug or distraction (including entertainment and consumption fetishism) that is meant to numb your feelings, pacify and tranquilize you, keep you passive and lethargic in the face of the injustice and inhumanity of the capitalist-imperialist system. Feel your feelings, get sad and then get angry, let those feelings drive you, let them motivate you to do something, take action, fight, and never surrender to powerlessness, hopelessness and tacit acceptance.
If you're referring to me, please don't degender me. I don't think hexbear shows custom display names from other instances, but I do have my pronouns in my profile.
To add, to go to your other reply from way earlier. Don't talk down to me as if I don't know capitalism doesn't cause alienation and atomization! Please, feel free to tell me other things I clearly do not know.
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Fruitbat [she/her] @lemmygrad.mlOkay, I will. It is perhaps a bit bad of me to keep relitigate this, when I should drop it, but I'm tired of getting hurt by others. On here, elsewhere. I'm not strong enough in this current time right now to be more mature and handle things and just brush things aside easily anymore. So I'm just going to fuck off like you said. Okay? "Comrade". You do realize like, you are talking to another person right? Maybe I did deserve it a bit for like, asking to hey please feel free to talk down to me, but still. Just going offline for the best anyways. I shouldn't be on here.
I'm pretty sure we also talked once since I have kind of a good idea who you are when I use to be on hexbear, I think I talked about pink floyd, mainly that wall movie, a bit to you pretty sure. Maybe I'm confusing you for someone else to. I don't know, but if it was you, again thank you for that moment. But I'll stop bothering now.
No comrade! Don't let that disrespectful person intimidate you or make you feel that you don't belong here. You are part of this community and the upvotes are a clear indicator that people agree with you. Wish that I could you a hug comrade. 🫂
rule 3 my dick you nerds, christ
Obviously you can't see it from my end but I took some 10 minutes to review this discussion, your account, and the whole context basically. It's not really important for my comment to mention this, however I do think it's important that we be transparent about how we moderate, once in a while.
Anyway, Lemmygrad isn't a chan site. You always have the choice not to comment and leave a conversation.