Dropping my online pseudonyms so I can print out the list and prove that I’m better than everyone else at the next No Kings Meetup

Why even engage? Put them on a list and move on.

The idea that people have their worldview changed by rhetoric and debate is a myth becoming less and less credible by the day.

Great essay, I appreciate your reply.

I would like to see a more thorough investigation or refutation regarding the potential AI has on cognitive atrophy. I don’t believe we can at all say that this potential was proven false since the advent of the internet- in fact I would say that the internet is a great example.

The issue I take is not with outsourcing in general, and of course no serious person could claim that one can live in a “vacuum outside of society”. But it is clear that people are using AI or attempting to use AI as a means to outsource mental tasks, and decision making that is endemic to the human experience / cognitive growth.

Can we compare a calculator to the purported uses- or even confirmed use cases of AI? I don’t believe so. The calculator is but a grenade when compared to AI’s nuclear potential.

Surface level investigations will reveal that irrespective of AI being the same as human relationships- humans will treat them that way. This sort of thing was demonstrated as early as the mid 20th century with the first chat-like computers.

Need we recirculate well circulated articles on the subject? Need we speak to the innumerable lonely people discussing their AI friend / partner replacement on reddit forums? Need we discuss this any further? Is there even a point in fighting against something that even the left adjacent uncritically support?

If you are at all content with the internet, or any of our other modern facets of entertainment- I don’t believe we will ever agree.

Don’t think of yourself as lazy, think of yourself as someone caught up in a competition for your attention.

Those things in your life that draw you away from from reading (games, short form content, scrolling, etc) are simply intentionally designed to win over your time.

Some users will suggest different mediums that are designed to convey the same or similar information- but these mediums have their short comings in regards to learning and I’ve become of the opinion that the medium changes the message.

What has worked for me, and may work for you is finding ways to make these other things in life less competitive.

That may mean cancelling entertainment services / closing accounts. That may mean implementing physical barriers that make it harder to default away from your book. That may mean literally leaving your devices in another location while you retreat to read somewhere else.

These things are difficult and require experimentation, but the dividends from your effort will never stop paying out.

A shame that you’re being pushed away so often, I know that you make a lot of contributions to this space- so know that at the very least you are appreciated

I personally don’t see any long term benefit in AI in it’s current state, I’m not a fan of the outsourcing of human relationships or tasks that require mental exercise, experience, wisdom.

But perhaps one of our learned materialists on here can correct my prejudices towards it.

The Cozy MK IV is a homebuilt aircraft, perhaps the owner / pilot had it installed, or perhaps it was done in house. Regardless I’d say this kind of thing is the rule and not an exception for homebuilt aircraft.

I’m sure the sub sucks because it’s reddit, but take one look at OP’s comment history- huge radlib loser, another bad apple in the vegan bunch which is a shame but no surprise

Snoozer, a homebuilt plane crashing is surprising only to the most ignorant

The people commenting that they’d expect a pilot to be smarter need only work on a flight line for 1 hour to have their worldview flipped upside down.

block me too twat, make a piefed account if you want to live in a little rainbow world

unlimited genocide on the west

piefed user moment

can we stop worrying about fed posting now?

i live to wish death on my enemies for upvotes

Show me 1 non-twat piefed poster and I’ll make an account

You are winning the race to be a lesser known reddit, congrats

No militancy, no merit.

Always the least funny guy showing you a standup comedy clip on YT- maybe it’s something that you have to see in person because I’ve never seen a special that made me forget the time I lost watching the next big sex pest fail to leave a positive impression on anyone in the crowd who won’t follow them through their “career” until they capitulate to the right to regain a shred of notoriety

no surprise here, these people have everything to hide but nothing to care about

the “so what?” attitude is a direct consequence of our own political passivity

I share your frustration.

But I think that we on an individual level do have opportunities to at least accelerate the decline of the west. An individual has the ability to give those in power pretext to due what they’ve been feinding for.

For what it’s worth, I have seen your pseudonym a few times and always appreciate your contributions here.

We will never be a match for the slopaganda that “the masses” are subject to, better that we work on destroying what are now universal distractions so that people become more receptive

Told a friend that I’d rather have Ten Dollars than see inside the files if given the choice

Hoping this all gets put to bed, it’s just entertainment for the masses at this point- inconsequential for the actual perpetrators

We tied ballasts to their feet and now criticize them for not being able to swim

He’s trying to prove he’s a real socialist by doing leftist infighting