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someone save me from ai i dont wanna live in this cyberpunk dystopia anymore
i guess this is a product of over consumption, feeling you need to shorten stories so you can consume more of them faster
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god that fucking sucks dude
There is this strange attitude towards books, where people overfocus on the number of books they read and what "counts as reading", as if finishing a book is in itself a form of self-improvement or prayer or something. My theory is that it comes from the education system somehow.
broke and 2016pilled: saying you've "read" a book after reading the "plot synopsis" on wickypeedia
stoke and 2025mode: saying you've "read" a book after making an algorithm turn it into a cute little digestable infant formula smoothie
artichoke and 2034感: saying you've "read" a book after semi-watching a 20 second video in the upper left of your glasses, where someone recounts the plot at 3x speed, also you're having nutrient paste dinner and "engaging" with your "office-mate friend-circle" off the clock in meatspace at the same time
I asked ChatGPT to summarize Marx's Capital in one paragraph or less, it stated
"Capitalism is when money. Communism is when no money. Money turns into linen, and linen turns into a commodity. Labor power."
Labor power.
I choose to read this in the same voice as "Turtle Power!" from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song.
Workers of the world unite
Workers of the world unite
Workers of the world unite
loosin' all their chains now!
Labor Power!
They're the world's most value producing thing! (We're really hip!)
They're workers in the factory and they're mean! (Hey - get a grip!)
When their boss cracks the whip
These laborers try to give'm the slip!
Workers of the world unite
Workers of the world unite
Marx taught them the philosophy (He's a radical rat!)
Lenin reads, and then he does the thing! (That's a fact, jack!)
Stalin had a big spoon, (Gimmie a break!)
Mao Zedong was a party dude (Party!)
Workers of the world unite
Workers of the world unite
Workers of the world unite
loosin' all their chains now!
Labor Power!
Not gonna lie, now that I see this idea I may use it to catch up on all those discworld books and see what the fuss was all about and if any of them would entertain someone over the age of like 8.
They hold up better the older you get, because then you actually understand the real-life histories and media properties that Pratchett was satirizing, but his original sense of absurdist humor still rings out. Highly recommend Going Postal and Making Money for older readers especially.
There is a massive complexity drop off in his later books as the dementia began to set in though, so it's not like there is a level of consistent intellectual complexity or particular pattern to it by release date.