I was asked whether I use any AI.

When I said that I don’t need it, I was given a strange look and was called primitive/a madman.

Is humanity really that far gone that we have to rely on a data collecting machine by big tech to be our second brain?

It seems that people have gotten too lazy to even look something up online.

Edit: “b-but he bombed people” I in no way compare myself to the Unabomber and only agree on his take of humanity becoming slaves of the tools they depend on.

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    It never occurred to me that op was comparing themselves to the unabomber.

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      Is admiring someone’s thoughts automatically make me the same person? He did kill a bunch of civilians and I’m not a big fan of bombing people

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        The man was fucked late in life- REALLY fell off the sanity train, BUT if you’re not familiar he was also an unbelievable genius-level man before losing it. Crazy freakin’ rabbit-hole to go down if it interests you. It did interest me.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski

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          This ain’t too bad either, from his 2016 book:

          Chapter 2, “Why the Technological System Will Destroy Itself”, develops the author’s theory of “self-propagating systems”—systems that compete against each other for power without any regard for the long-term consequences, since any self-propagating systems that take the long-term into account will lose their competitive edge and be out-competed by self-propagating systems that do not. Kaczynski ultimately argues that since the technological system itself is a self-propagating system composed of self-propagating subsystems that competes for power in the short-term without regard for the long-term negative consequences, that the logical conclusion of the continued growth of the technological system is the complete destruction of the biosphere, wiping out all complex lifeforms.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Tech_Revolution

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          Theodore John Kaczynski was born in Chicago on May 22, 1942, to working-class parents Wanda Theresa (née Dombek) and Theodore Richard Kaczynski, a sausage maker.[12] The two were Polish Americans who were raised as Roman Catholics but later became atheists.[13]

          What an odd thing to include.

          Edit: Here’s another oddity:

          Kaczynski used a typewriter to write his manuscript, capitalizing entire words for emphasis, in lieu of italics.

          Typerwriters didn’t have italics and it wouldn’t be only a crazy person writing on a typewriter in 1995.

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              Just seems like a detail that would probably be ignored in almost any other case. How often have you seen a parents later change of religion mentioned in a Wikipedia biography? I think the subtle message here is, “Maybe lack of belief in God led to his terrorism.”

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                Interesting thought. Still, if anyone ever made a record of my life I’d want such a thing mentioned.

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                  Yeah, but if you were a terrorist, they’d try to tar whatever your origins are, no matter how tangentially related.

                  I mean, if I were a terrorist, I’d feel it weird if they mentioned something like me being 1/4 Jewish on my dad’s, raised Catholic, side. I didn’t even find out about it until I was in college. I’d guess it was some anti-Semite wikipedia editor with a grudge.

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                    Interesting. My perspective is that it’s just recording history. I guess I don’t read that deeply between the lines. I don’t see a motive there.

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        I feel that way about Castro. I love his anti-US screeds, but he is a total piece of shit; also probably unlikely he wrote them anyway.