Durabys

Durabys t1_jeeppuc wrote

They were better from the perspective of being young because when one is young the bones don't hurt when moving, the mind races ahead and doesn't move like frozen honey, one actually can understand new concepts and not jump in fright as his mind ricochets over anything that came after one's 40th birthday or when one visits the doctor only once per year and only for 10 minutes and do not spend half a year bedridden in a hospital.

They blame the age they live currently live in, instead of blaming circumstances: aging/death and the uncaring cosmos.

Humans have an archetypal Stockholm syndrome for Death and Aging interwoven into every single piece of culture and article of faith we ever created, and anyone not a fanatical materialist does not acknowledge it.

And this trope goes way back to the dawn of the written word, with even Aristotle complaining in his final years how everything sucks balls with the current youth. Yes. Because one gets old.

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Durabys t1_j8323pt wrote

Read Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber to understand that the high paid fullfilling jobs are already mostly gone by 2010. What remains are “safety valve” jobs that Capitalists realize they have to create to give something to occupy the minds of the working class because a mind with nothing to work and with spare time to think about its circumstances would be a mortal danger to them.

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Durabys t1_j75pxlu wrote

Reply to comment by Neurogence in Possible first look at GPT-4 by tk854

If the rumors aren't fake, then Google/Alphabet is right now in Washington D.C. and lobbying like crazy to curtail AI development in Congress. Not due dangers to Humanity. Nah! They no longer care about that--remember, they removed the “Do no evil” from their motto. But because they were asleep at the wheel until right now, and then woke up and got the mother of all frights at the prospect of losing their entire business to new tech. Gee. Karma perhaps?

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