You have put very well in words what i have been feeling for a long time.

“Theory of Baseless Forms” is a phrase i must remember. “I am deeply saddened that people around here are no longer in contact with their essence and have fallen into believing this game is the only real thing around…”

Yes, exactly, the world used to be a magical place, guided by magical principles, but nowadays everything is rationalized, superficial, and driven by the law of mass action (also called “economies of scale”).

There is no myth in the modern world, no story told except that of capitalism and endless greed, and the soul of people seems to be silent.

I would also point out that “greed” is the problem, not “egoism”.

Egoism is a healthy attitude to take care of yourself.

Greed is the unhealthy attitude to do so at other’s expense.

There was a soviet joke:

A refugee from the sovjet union was not surprised to learn that most of what his government had told him about his country way lies - it wasn’t that great.

However, he was shocked to learn that they were telling the truth about other countries.

oh come on

people are in denial that their way of life - getting paid for intellectual output - is coming to an end. it’s not the case that AI just produces slop. surely it does but so do a lot of humans. you know all the memes about human workers having imposter syndrome - feeling as if they don’t even really know what they’re doing? AI only has to produce higher quality output than them. and it definitely can.

the reason why people shit on AI so hard is because they’re afraid - afraid that AI will “out-compete” them. in that sense, you could also call it “jealous”, like a woman fears she’s replaced by another woman.

people need to respect themselves and others enough to agree to survive - and thrive, even - in the absence of a productive output. in other words, only if you can allow your fellow humans a living income without work, you are truly in a position where you can live comfortably in the future.

I’m highly excited about this development!

We can’t have open software on opaque hardware. The hardware must be transparent.

no no keep the bot accounts so we can get a second Reddit facebook exodus wave