Yea, I always liken nihilism to being an asshole, because you reap the rewards, however small or large, of peoples' labour who didn't think that way. The least you can do is pay it forward, so it's more an obligation then anything else.
The distinction between mouth breathers and bots nowadays is hard to discern. We'll never know what OP meant
I feel you bro. Especially the endless stroads and parking lots. We lost a lot to make a suburbia we can't even take ownership of.
I mean the attention economy is essentially that considering an algorithm is the middle man
And thank god it doesn't get them all the way there, because if it were able to completely do everything accurately with the level of ambiguous prompts the layperson gives it, anyone technical would essentially be out of a job.
And honestly, the world would be better off not making people complacent just being end users of everything, and instead have to have a modicum of understanding what they are doing.
I used to think its just neophobia having all these kids using smart phones and touch screens for everything at increasingly earlier ages, but its like they only know how to use/consume things, never an inkling of trying to tinker with things and understand how to repurpose the mechanisms , figure out how things work (tbf everything now is super integrated, much harder to repair).
It just doesn't bode well to me when it seems like the future labor force is so disconnected from the underlying systems they use.
It was a reference to what agent Smith said in the movie.
But also yea, it seems like standard of living peaked around that time where everything was affordable (in North America at least), people weren't addicted to their tech and still generally had a third place. Politicians also didn't lean as much into rhetoric.
When your platform is all about "hey at least I'm not that guy", it doesn't inspire people to vote
If it's pre-30 yr old, the cells are all body builders, but after, they are old men with canes
Yup, unfortunately people don't understand that policies only change the equilibrium, but sometimes take longer than electoral cycles to see effect.
That's why no party really gives a shit about bringing down the national debt, because twofold:
- people hate you in your term because that's less money being spent for their benefit now
- the opposition can have more spending room to provide more benefits in their term, making them more popular.
And if you travel into the future, your shits gonna be all fucked up and people will think you talk like a fag.
What part of ANY of this makes you think we’re in the GOOD timeline???
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