As long as you can do work and consume, all that extra intelligence and emotion is really just dead weight that should be cut loose. Next up:
"Feeling hopeless? Consider getting lobotomized!"
"Neuralink allows workers to function on autopilot, relieving them of the burden of sentience"
"Apple Watch to come with automatic lithium infusers, providing a bright future to humanity"
"Congress debates bill to replace Social Security benefits with an automatic qualification for physician-assisted suicide at the age of 70, potentially saving billions of dollars in entitlements spending"
I was just thinking about this last night. I know several people who basically want to devote ~50% of their brain power to work/money, ~50% to hobbies, and call it a day. The personification of :blob-no-thoughts:
It's the natural conclusion to draw from our environment in places like America. Put more accurately, it's exactly the conclusion that we are lead to draw, that we are told is reasonable from every fucking source except the ones who say it should be more like 95% work/money because "grind" and then retire rich at 35.
I can't blame anyone who feels that way, and honestly I might if I believed I could do it effectively. My contempt isn't directed at them, it's directed at the architects of their personal and intellectual suicide.
My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?
Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"
As long as you can do work and consume, all that extra intelligence and emotion is really just dead weight that should be cut loose. Next up:
"Feeling hopeless? Consider getting lobotomized!"
"Neuralink allows workers to function on autopilot, relieving them of the burden of sentience"
"Apple Watch to come with automatic lithium infusers, providing a bright future to humanity"
"Congress debates bill to replace Social Security benefits with an automatic qualification for physician-assisted suicide at the age of 70, potentially saving billions of dollars in entitlements spending"
I was just thinking about this last night. I know several people who basically want to devote ~50% of their brain power to work/money, ~50% to hobbies, and call it a day. The personification of :blob-no-thoughts:
It's the natural conclusion to draw from our environment in places like America. Put more accurately, it's exactly the conclusion that we are lead to draw, that we are told is reasonable from every fucking source except the ones who say it should be more like 95% work/money because "grind" and then retire rich at 35.
I can't blame anyone who feels that way, and honestly I might if I believed I could do it effectively. My contempt isn't directed at them, it's directed at the architects of their personal and intellectual suicide.
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