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Please tell me they're going to become a doomer anprim- although I suspect they'll find a way to make even that be mind-numbingly boring.View attachment 1796633View attachment 1796632
Online fame and its consequences have been a disaster for Cosmo Wright.
Brb gotta go change my AI's diaper and feed it some pureed carrots.We already have working AI technology and everyone can have and train one, it's called "raising a child".
The medical industrial complex is what made it possible for him to poison himself with estrogen pills. The technology industry makes it possible for him to tweet about it.View attachment 1796633View attachment 1796632
Online fame and its consequences have been a disaster for Cosmo Wright.
Isn't the first tweet what the Unabomber said verbatim in his manifesto?View attachment 1796633View attachment 1796632
Online fame and its consequences have been a disaster for Cosmo Wright.
Yep. Looks like Cosmo copy-pasted it, since it still has the paragraph number at the start.Isn't the first tweet what the Unabomber said verbatim in his manifesto?
Burying Cosmo is not hiding treasure, it's more akin to waste disposal.
They could at least help Terry to fight his condition, instead of making condition of people like Cosmo even worse.Troons and narcissists love thinking theyre treasures that the world needs. If there's people worth having their lives extended, it's surely nobel prize winners and math geniuses rather than a shut in who made a walking simulator. I wonder if we could give another 20 years to people like John B Goodenough or John Forbes Nash, they could have a realistic shot at coming up with another breakthrough for humanity.
I know I sound like a stupid cynic or nihilist but sometimes I think about how many years shitty people like Barb have to waste while people who put their lives to good use still have the same number of years. Life isn't fair or just
you can setup your own storage at home with a NAS or pay a few dollars for Amazon S3 to store terabytes. Storage is dirt cheap nowadays.
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Online fame and its consequences have been a disaster for Cosmo Wright.
"When people do not have to exert themselves to satisfy 4 their physical needs they often set up artificial goals for themselves. In many cases they then pursue these goals with the same energy and emotional involvement that they otherwise would have put into the search for physical necessities...Isn't the first tweet what the Unabomber said verbatim in his manifesto?
"When people do not have to exert themselves to satisfy 4 their physical needs they often set up artificial goals for themselves. In many cases they then pursue these goals with the same energy and emotional involvement that they otherwise would have put into the search for physical necessities...
39. We use the term “surrogate activity” to designate an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that people set up for themselves merely in order to have some goal to work toward, or let us say, merely for the sake of the “fulfillment” that they get from pursuing the goal...
41. For many if not most people, surrogate activities are less satisfying than the pursuit of real goals (that is, goals that people would want to attain even if their need for the power process were already fulfilled). One indication of this is the fact that, in many or most cases, people who are deeply involved in surrogate activities are never satisfied, never at rest. Thus the money-maker constantly strives for more and more wealth. The scientist no sooner solves one problem than he moves on to the next. The long-distance runner drives himself to run always farther and faster. Many people who pursue surrogate activities will say that they get far more fulfillment from these activities than they do from the “mundane” business of satisfying their biological needs, but that is because in our society the effort needed to satisfy the biological needs has been reduced to triviality. More importantly, in our society people do not satisfy their biological needs AUTONOMOUSLY but by functioning as parts of an immense social machine. In contrast, people generally have a great deal of autonomy in pursuing their surrogate activities."
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Depressed people don't make obvious ploys for attention nonstop like this. This "there is only sadness in my heart, someone rescue me" shit isn't actual depression, it's wearing depression as a trendy outfit. Depressed people think that everyone hates them and wouldn't rescue them if they asked because they don't care.Looks like moving back home with mommy and daddy didn't help. These posts feel like expressions of clear depression.![]()
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Yet people plant gardens for fun. They also hunt and fish for sport, even though they can easily buy meat and fish at a store. Naturally, we don't want to rely on difficult or uncertain food sources to survive, but we do want some kind of challenging and risky activities in our lives.Yeah this is where I disagree. I don't think most people want to work in fields to find food and shelter. People will only do that out of necessity.
I only quote it because the most extreme examples of fake achievement could not describe speedrunning more accurately. I'm inbetween myself. I think Ted drastically underestimates that the human animal wants to be lazy most of all.Yeah this is where I disagree. I don't think most people want to work in fields to find food and shelter. People will only do that out of necessity.
How many people do that for fun?Yet people plant gardens for fun. They also hunt and fish for sport, even though they can easily buy meat and fish at a store. Naturally, we don't want to rely on difficult or uncertain food sources to survive, but we do want some kind of challenging and risky activities in our lives.
Yes. I think that's exactly what he wantedHow many people do that for fun?
Some people like to kill things for fun, too bad they were born 800 years too late, they'd fit right in the Golden Horde.
What Kaczynski didn't understand is that without this "surrogate activity" you have 0 progress in civilization. Once hunger, cold and disease stop being a problem, what are humans supposed to do exactly? Eat, sleep and shit for all eternity?
Yes. He talks a lot about the Industrial Revolution, but following Ted's philosophy through with intellectual honesty requires you to reject pretty much every single technology since the Bronze Age and anything that resembles even primitive civilization, and arguably (if you accept all of his premises) acts as an argument against the evolution of sapience being a good thing.How many people do that for fun?
Some people like to kill things for fun, too bad they were born 800 years too late, they'd fit right in the Golden Horde.
What Kaczynski didn't understand is that without this "surrogate activity" you have 0 progress in civilization. Once hunger, cold and disease stop being a problem, what are humans supposed to do exactly? Eat, sleep and shit for all eternity?
the definition between surrogate and vital activity is tellingly arbitrary. and he's clearly writing with some ideal in mind, otherwise he'd have been a buhddist instead of a killer. I don't think it's an incorrect statement that people in the modern world can submerge themselves chasing the artificial. the extremism of Kaczynski that he was so reactive as to see it everywhere, in all prescribed social roles, and it was the inevitable result of plenty.Yes. He talks a lot about the Industrial Revolution, but following Ted's philosophy through with intellectual honesty requires you to reject pretty much every single technology since the Bronze Age and anything that resembles even primitive civilization, and arguably (if you accept all of his premises) acts as an argument against the evolution of sapience being a good thing.
Ted is literally "reject modernity, return to monke".
EDIT: Hell, even most primates exhibit "surrogate behavior" in the wild sometimes, as do a lot of other mammals, so arguably he thinks humanity should regress to reptilian levels.