These are random people getting 3 upvotes on reddit. I say this respectfully, but is this really the best use of the dunk tank or anyone's attention?
Someone had a bad reaction, and posted it to get other people to say, "yes those people are bad bad bad and you are good good good!" That's about as far as it goes.
What utility does a human offer you that an AI couldn't?
These people are fucking sociopaths
Rationalists and futurists in general forgetting that 70% of the world doesn’t and can’t have the infrastructure needed to provide the tech utopia they crave will forever be funny
Kinda hard to realize that when you haven't stepped a foot outside of Silicon Valley in two decades.
I'm ensconsed in my goo-pod where there actual, "real world" is.
While enjoying an orgy with all my favorite anime waifus, I get a perimeter alert. No worries, the autoguns will take care of it.
Did I reload the autoguns? Whatever, don't worry about it.
Suddenly I'm pulled out of my orgy and out of the goo pod by my throat.
Realizing I never truly lived, I imagine the life of the guy choking me to death flashing before my eyes
The secret is that the dude murdering the pod person actually understands enjoying stuff because enjoyment is largely absent. All the pod-people know is indulgence.
Big “the tribunals on climate change will be on the streets” post from years ago energy
That is obviously stupid but what if the robot looked like this :bottom-speak:
Yeah, now what, liberal?
Every science fiction story I’ve read about a single lone human raised by an AI caretaker made it look miserable. Is this a Torment Nexus thing?
They're just trying to envisage a scenario in which then get laid.
I think that these ideas are bullshit, but there's a little grain of truth in it.
The experience of life in the US the last few years is increasingly online as the poorly managed pandemic, capitalist grifting and breakdown of essential institutions like hospitals has left people isolated. We turn to the internet and imagine ourselves connecting with other people. But that's all it is, imagining. It is technically only text on a screen. You can fool your mind and tease your heart to believe it, but the body knows it's not real.
Technically, if there were an even higher quality ChatGPL or whatever it's called able to respond to internet communications, how would you know? The fact we only imagine or trust there are other people out there we communicate with is the grain of truth at the heart of this insanity.
The remedy of course is socialism working toward communism as a goal. To address the infrastructure of our shared community, to address the dangerous health issues of disease for the well being of the people, the elimination of capitalist grifting with housing, transportation and food would promote genuine and healthy interaction with others that these geniuses sorely need to mitigate their decent into fantasy to rationalize their failure to meet their own social needs.
