I’ve seen comments from people on Reddit, and yes, real people, not bots, and not just on Reddit, and I felt a little uncomfortable, they mentioned simulation theory, adding Elon Musk, some even idolized AI, considering humans to be garbage that should be in a landfill including real girls and friends, and they said it with ridicule or just like complete non-humans.
I don’t know much about it, but if you’ve seen it too and know what this phenomenon is, I’d be happy to know.
I didn’t even know what to write in the title of the post, so I chose what came to mind.
They’ve been losing their humanity before AI was a thing.
If we assume that the number of such people has grown since the 2000s or 2010s, or were there many such people before?
Quick facts: • Slavery only ended 1-2 centuries back. • Women didn’t have voting rights until the last century in the US. • Gay marriage wasn’t recognized anywhere until 2001. • We’ve had two unnecessary global wars, one with nukes going off.
Yeah, I’d say humans haven’t been very human for a good while now.
And not be a reductionist, there were several crusades by groups who follow the same god, but different prophets of said god.
Been a long time coming. Just read through this passage written by Erich Fromm in Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism from 1957.
Control by the intellect over nature, and the production of more and more things, became the paramount aims of life. In this process man has transformed himself into a thing, life has become subordinated to property, “to be” is dominated by “to have.” Where the roots of Western culture, both Greek and Hebrew, considered the aim of life the perfection of man, modern man is concerned with the perfection of things, and the knowledge of how to make them. Western man is in a state of schizoid inability to experience affect, hence he is anxious, depressed, and desperate. He still pays lip service to the aims of happiness, individualism, initiative—but actually he has no aim. Ask him what he is living for, what is the aim of all his strivings—and he will be embarrassed. Some may say they live for the family, others, “to have fun,” still others, to make money, but in reality nobody knows what he is living for; he has no goal, except the wish to escape insecurity and aloneness.
he has no goal, except the wish to escape insecurity and aloneness.
And it’s as if we keep refining our system to make those aims harder.
Not that I disagree with your sentiment, but it should be recognized that the more we try to escape loneliness, the faster it chases us from behind. To find connection, we first need to recognize what part it is within us that isn’t being acknowledged.
I will have to read that one thanks.
Have you stopped to figure that you were on Reddit where it is like one of the cesspools of humanity? That’s the same place that kisses Spez’s ass who has been selling them over hand over fist, over anything before the bots came rampant on there. And they enjoy it because they think they’ll have a slice of the pie if they invest in Reddit.
Nobody on there can make up their mind on anything. They hate Musk, but love Spez, who worships Musk. They love this but hate that and that is applicable to anything. They’re too stubborn to leave because they love validation and are high on themselves by the amount of shitty pointless karma farming they’ve done.
Is this your first day on the Internet?
a lot of people have very naive and oversimplified views of the world/internet.
and rather than learn about how complex things are, they reject the very notion of complexity and retreat to their black and white viewpoints that often serve to dehumanize anyone who doesn’t agree with their simplified viewpoints on everything.
They never had it to begin with.
Not convinced
