Western society has become a hollowed-out shell of communal life, where AI chatbots act as digital opioids providing addictive facsimiles of human relationships. These are symptoms of societal collapse, where atomization drives the masses to seek solace in algorithms.
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Strange how these ‘AI is driving people crazy/making them stupid’ articles always leave out the part where a chunk of the population is now Dementia-maxxing.
that’s fucked up
Covid is a vascular disease. It is (often silently) tearing people’s bodies up from top to bottom.
it also destroys the immune system https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1733
I mean, probably, I don’t think anyone has checked to see if all those people suffering from Immune Dysregulation have been using ChatGPT… yet.
Dubois-maxxing.
MFW the new Black Panther’s breakfast program will probably be just starting a social club if you’re lucky enough to afford to live in a city and porky’s still working on laying you off.
The revolution will be won by “hey, wanna be friends?” and to a small degree, I am not joking.
if there was a cafeteria in walking distance that was affirdably priced with discounts for kids and the elderly, but structured just to cover it’s labor & material costs, with a bunch of communal eating tables, an elevated area for announcements, and a “clean up after yourself” culture… I swear to god, it would become the community hub.
of course, the bourgeoisie fucksticks that control property and own the constantly failing, overpriced restaurants would shit a brick at even the mention of such a place.
With all the failing malls, I wonder how much the lease on a food court stall is. It would be cool to open a cafeteria with a “pay what you can” model, serving easy to mass produce vegan meals and whatever else can get donated while also letting orgs use the space for dinner and teach ins
The biggest problem would be the rent. In my area, it’s impossible to buy commercially zoned real estate as an individual. You have to pay a landlord to do anything, and they will raise your rent until the unit is vacant again.
yeah, for sure. landlordism is an anathema to community and its normalization is a poison. the notion that it’s completely normal for a group of people to come together, socialize, help each other, and build a community while some entity forces them to convert a significant portion of the value created into some exchangeable unit of value for it to extract in perpetuity is toxic. even the “father” of capitalism wrote of landlords as cruel parasites, “indolent”, and ignorant/incapable of thinking.
both materially and in the imagination, landlordism as a concept prevents us from coming together, because we take it for granted that it’s normal/good/acceptable for someone to charge us for having a place to exist. there is more than enough wealth for our need, but there will never be enough for the landlord’s greed.
nevermind that bonds against future municipal taxes and revenues from municipal services could be used to purchase community land at a fairly assessed value, that land could be granted exemption from property taxes as a communally owned district, and the disposition of the land into communal space for food, recreation, etc is all pretty feasible even under a not-even-radical social democratic system. but the implication that we can own something together and realize the use value ourselves without a landlord is too dangerous for “civic leaders” (banks, landlords, etc) to allow.
You mearly adapted introversion. I was born into it. Molded by it.
I found LLMs to be extremely limited, flawed, uncreative, unintelligent, boring, and very much HAL 9000 “Sorry, Dave I can’t do that”. Basically there’s no intelligence there. They give summaries of very narrow datasets, have a hundcuffs up the ass and not in an Asimov 3 laws way but in a Robocop hidden 4th directive way.
The most fun I’ve had was figuring out the rules it has imposed on itself and breaking it in catch-22 loops. I have better interaction with video game NPCs. At least there’s a payoff or destination or story building. HAL 9000s are boring AF. A magc 8 ball is more interesting.
Yeah, idk how this is happening. I nominally tried having a convo with a chatbot, and it was like talking to a person half-listening with short-term memory resets happening every few paragraphs.
I feel like at least earlier models would sometimes produce funny deranged shit, but recent ones feel more like Cleverbot; Safe, sanitized, ultra-processed. The most fun I had was like 2 years ago, when I pasted a Bash command into a prompt and the bot suddenly started acting like it was an interactive shell. Suddenly I was logged into a fictional UNIX System with other active “users” that I could mess with. It didn’t last long, and it wasn’t my intention at all, but it was somewhat entertaining.
How can anyone have a conversation with one of those Chatbots and feel like they’re talking to a person? AI Players in Age of Empires are more interesting and engaging than Chatbots imo.
send me 1000 each of wood, gold and stone and I will be thy friend.
They aren’t filling it, they’re occupying it.
Yeah, you could swap out LLMs for booze in the headline and it would be about as accurate.
seeing OPs headline and then theatlantic.com was some insane whiplash
Turns out even the lotus eaters are starting to question the value of all these flowers that tech has been selling.
Thinking about how lonely and isolated my mom is in the middle-of-nowhere’s-ville population 3, if she stumbles upon chat GPT she may be cooked
Paywall removed: https://archive.ph/ICVJ3
how do i reverse-cyrano somebody’s imaginary partner?
