What’s option 3?
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Getting really into sleight of hand magic and smoking a lot of pot.
I don't know how to put this to you guys but the one on the right is significantly more plausible than the one on the left.
Also I don't like turmeric.
Well, I'm already sort-of the right one. I made an AI organize my documents, suggest articles for me to learn from, etc. I vent to AI, I ask AI for advice, AI is secretly running my life in the background.
I always remember someone that came to my country, Chile, without getting a visa, because chat GPT told them they didn't need a visa, they were denied entry and had to flew back.
Was that you?
~~and there is increasing evidence of a correlation of "AI therapy" and suicides, or AI emotional dependency in general, character AI is really good at killing autistic people too.~~
Ok, I exaggerated a bit, but this depends on the person I think. For me, it is the only way to move ahead sometimes
I choose not to be an idiot.
I want science and progress, but progress at the service of the wellbeing of mankind, not to enrich idiots who outsourced their critical thinking to chat GPT.
Post scarcity is kind of an odd man out here. The idea predates tech broism by a solid half century, and informs a lot of contemporary leftist theory. There is nothing inherently wrong with using utopian thinking as a guiding principle for iterative policy. I'd argue that anything which doesn't do that is cynicism.
It occurs to me that I'd argue we're heading towards a forced scarcity society rather than post scarcity. That's the only way they can make sure we don't get a Star Trek type future if/when we figure out fusion power. Hell, we've already basically been able to feed everyone for ages.
Artificial scarcity is definitely nothing new. Look at the diamond industry, for example. Diamonds are common as hell, but they regulate the supply so severely in order to sell these cheap chunks of carbon for thousands of dollars.
If there's no competition in a market willing to race others to the bottom in terms of price, there's no incentive to actually produce a reasonable amount of something people want. You can just withold supply and charge way more.
Diamonds
So we need cultured post-scarcity, the lab-grown stuff
Or just the fact that grocery stores throw away thousands of tons of perfectly edible food every day while there are people dying of malnutrition. They aren't starving, they are being starved.
forced vs post scarcity
tbh i'm happy whenever someone at least acknowledges the tension between these two facets.
anyway my actual point, imo the "too many humans" propaganda is part of the forced scarcity lobby. there's perhaps too many humans to live as wastefully as we are, so why wouldn't reducing waste be our #1-3 top priorities?
but waste is more 'profitable' (in short term), so we go all in - while pretending Us Living & Others Not-Living is a moral obligation on our part wtflol
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While post scarcity is excellent and I do believe it is possible in theory, it's used as a buzzword to handwave away all the dystopian things being pushed.
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I choose death
Depending on how serious you are:
Choose weed instead
Or the crisis line. You probably already know where to find it. Help is available. You do not have to suffer alone. I love you homie.
He's an assassassin. He never said the death was his own...
Just kidding, unless given that exact choice lol. Weed has been a great help this year. Love you too fam, appreciate the thoughtful comment.
Or the crisis line.
What happens is that they “triage” you, where depending on how you answer their script you get cops at your door and a trip to hell on earth, or you are on hold for 20 minutes to speak with someone who also is reading a script and doesn’t give a rats ass about you.
Maybe states that aren’t Oklahoma have mental hospitals which are preferable to drinking yourself to sleep, but who knows.
"Everyone and everything will end in my lifetime. I'll be here to see it all crumble just before I am incinerated in the blast."
is another popular escapist fantasy.
No one wants to believe they'll just have to hobble through a slow and painful decline.
we will make global anarchy by tomorrow. no more money, capitalism and suffering, trust
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We are all stardust though. Billion-year-old carbon.
yes but do you consider that important in any way? if you do you are closer to the person on the left
I would say it is a neutral fact.
Imo there is no meaning to life, everyone decides for themselves what to live for.
If someone likes the fact that we are made from starstuff, why yuck that yum specifically? It is kind of a nice perspective to take sometimes when life gets stressful.
It is also a part of a nice song by Joni Mitchell and a nice speech by Carl Sagan, both people I admire, but not something I think about a lot...
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I mean scientifically speaking, we are all made of stardust. Everything in the universe is. Including the existential crisis your trying to forget by disassociating.
And blue light does keep you awake. Are we team Esotheria?
Stellaris players: How it feels to have a Spiritualist empire on one side of your border and a Materialist empire on the other.
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I have met the guy on the right irl. He was unbearable
Basically the dark shadows of the Hippy Age Of Aquarius and sandal-wearing tech Utopianism corrupted Into evil by the baby boomers ageing into the dominant political class in the West.
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I choose neither, and instead day dream about fully automated luxury gay space communism, knowing I'm gonna die before such a thing could ever come to fruition.
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I just want to drop in and call out "death is a design flaw" specifically. It is not. Without death, there can be no evolution, and any change to the environment is extinction.
The mountains seem eternal, but there were forests before many of them, and though the trees will be different in the distant eons when the mountains are worn to nothing, the forests will live on.
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I honestly think most of these bugfuck crazy views stem from we humans not having evolved to deal with the modern world. People feed us the simple answers we crave.
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This is so overwhelmingly hyperbolic I’m not sure what to take from it
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