Its gonna be really, really uh… I’m gonna use the word ‘funny’…
… when in 10-20 years, and the entire global economy all around the world is utterly collapsing due to unmitigated climate change incurring devastating economic damages to all sectors, basically everywhere, in broadly predictable but not specifically or locally accurately predictable ways, with new waves of tens of thousands, millions to tens of millions of people trying to flee to somewhere food is actually affordable… every season or month or week…
… well your connection to the AI, to wifi, to mobile networks… will just get turned off, infrastructure broken for the last time with no planned repair… or your device will be broken and fixing it is impossible because they stopped making the parts 5 years ago, would cost too much anyway, and it also doesn’t matter because you were late on your subscription payment to the AI provider.
Everyone who is being trained to be dependent on something like chatGPT instead of using and developing their brains, everyone with brainrot who is dependent on constant injections of short form content… they are basically going to go feral in a decade or two when they are now 30ish, have negative attention spans, are functionally illiterate, and are now utterly unable to function as anything other than manual labor, violent gangs or performative clowns of some kind.
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i am beyond the grief stage of realizing we will not solve climate change, so it is funny to me when people assume our future is ‘weird, less interesting cyberpunk dystopia’, when it will be much more…
…billions died in the middle and latter parts of the 21st century, and most of the world reverted to Fallout style barbarism, only a few islands of ‘stability’ remained, and they were largely ethno-supremecist and highly authoritarian.
Welcome to the world the smarter and more curious Gen Z and Gen A’s have grown up in, never having experienced any real societal growth or advancement in any meaningful way, nor any hope of it, other than increasingly pervasive and advanced monetization technology… all with the knowledge that we are all doomed.
Its gonna be really, really uh… I’m gonna use the word ‘funny’…
… when in 10-20 years, and the entire global economy all around the world is utterly collapsing due to unmitigated climate change incurring devastating economic damages to all sectors, basically everywhere, in broadly predictable but not specifically or locally accurately predictable ways, with new waves of tens of thousands, millions to tens of millions of people trying to flee to somewhere food is actually affordable… every season or month or week…
… well your connection to the AI, to wifi, to mobile networks… will just get turned off, infrastructure broken for the last time with no planned repair… or your device will be broken and fixing it is impossible because they stopped making the parts 5 years ago, would cost too much anyway, and it also doesn’t matter because you were late on your subscription payment to the AI provider.
Everyone who is being trained to be dependent on something like chatGPT instead of using and developing their brains, everyone with brainrot who is dependent on constant injections of short form content… they are basically going to go feral in a decade or two when they are now 30ish, have negative attention spans, are functionally illiterate, and are now utterly unable to function as anything other than manual labor, violent gangs or performative clowns of some kind.
…
i am beyond the grief stage of realizing we will not solve climate change, so it is funny to me when people assume our future is ‘weird, less interesting cyberpunk dystopia’, when it will be much more…
…billions died in the middle and latter parts of the 21st century, and most of the world reverted to Fallout style barbarism, only a few islands of ‘stability’ remained, and they were largely ethno-supremecist and highly authoritarian.
This was deeply depressing to read.
Welcome to the world the smarter and more curious Gen Z and Gen A’s have grown up in, never having experienced any real societal growth or advancement in any meaningful way, nor any hope of it, other than increasingly pervasive and advanced monetization technology… all with the knowledge that we are all doomed.