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Imagine going to a concert and everyone sees their favorite artist sing their favorite song!
Feel alone together! Share nothing! Experience nothing new! Never leave your bubble! Make Howard Hughes look like a fucking amateur!
Join with the torment nexus!
There is this one old school sci fy story where all of humanity just lives in their room and they all just share and prepare lectures about the things they enjoy and literally never leave their rooms. Everything is run by a machine. Nobody ever leaves their room they’re just constantly preparing lectures on various subjects or watching other people’s lectures. I sadly can’t remember what it’s called . It’s good and kinda the direction that the world is going it
If you ever remember the name I'd love to read this one. It seems like a very good description of social media today.
Found it for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
It predicts the social media age incredibly well
Thank you! 
No problem it’s a quick read as well
I read it. Oh my... to think this is from 1909 if I understood correctly. The bit about "beware of first-hand ideas" at the end chilled me to the bone, it was so "the times we live in".
Yeah I read it a year ago and there have been a lot of joints and booze in that time to make my memory fuzzy but I did autistically tell every one about it and how they should read it.
He was friends with the dude who wrote this: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/edward-carpenter-civilisation-its-cause-and-cure
I also want to read that because I kinda see civilisation as a curse as well.
But ya so much stuff to read and my focus is just getting worse and worse as I grow older. Plus if you have an inquisitive mind you’ll probably end up having similar thoughts to other people as well.
the speculative ai bubble is going to make these next few years be deeply unserious
Microsoft already rolled out and rolled back a massive security vulnerability lmao.
lmao Connor O'Malley did a whole standup special where this is the entire bit barely a month ago and reality has already caught up
Truly one of the prophets of our time
"I'd love if I as a comedian could completely put myself out of a job by giving the rights to being me to an AI"
aiDaveChappelle: "So... We all know that cancel culture is bad right?
aiAUDIENCE: Somebody whistles. Somebody cheers.
aiDaveChappelle: "StatueAvi8814 is funny. But he doesn't get the likes. Why?"
aiAUDIENCE: Somebody says "Yeah, why!"
aiDaveChappelle: "It's simple. Because. Of. Cancel. Culture."
aiAUDIENCE: Wild cheering.
StatueAvi8814 has run the sim 482 times. He's not tired of it yet!
We're in the LLM golden age, before copyright issues and unavoidable limitations of their design are fully realized
i would love it if I could just get people into a paid subscription service of DEEZ NUTS hahahah gottem
What's the difference between that and literally selling your soul?
you can actually do this?
Fucking oooof. And you don't even get a lot of money either.
To me, the biggest contradiction here is that "he" is speaking with all the intensity of a 6 AM podcast while supposedly being on stage. The body language actually seems kinda accurate, too.
And of course, the material is a soulless string of cliches.
"I would be the beneficiary of this AI, not having to do any work myself. And people would pay the subscription fees to me."