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First therapy-session Aaah. Finally. It was really nice. I had very good chemistry with this woman. I will use therapy as a way to improve my self-esteem while I'm undecided about continuing to stay in this job or not. There is quite some anxiety and self-doubt etc that I can really snowball into when I'm not feeling mastery and when I'm not getting recognition in my job, and since my job changed so much three years ago, I've been really digging myself into this shit. I think I could potentially feel a much greater sense of empowerment in my job if I can turn this negative loop around. Perhaps it would still be a really boring job, but better to leave it with empowerment if I choose to leave. With some engagement in these gestalt therapy-processes it will also be much easier to just see my job and my situation in life as an external mirror for my inner state. It can be really fun to look closer at the social dynamics in my job, and how they trigger me.
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Yeah. Not making a choice is still a choice.
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Haha, check this one out:
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Just a joke. I agree with your take - for the most part.
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I recently bought a Bombardino Cocodrilo lapel pin to serve as a symbolic representation of a particular aspect of Creativity — no matter how ugly, derivative, hallucinatory, chaotic, brainrotting it all is, AI slop is still ultimately God's imagination. I envision it will be a useful facilitation tool for me to go deeper into the Insanity facet, especially paired with deliriants. A clever little reframing of the issue. (though also silly 🤤)
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One thing a lot of people miss is the fact that Claude Code can now be used to successfully replicate highly complex software over the course of a weekend. This is huge because the bar has been lowered such that this is now a viable survival strategy for at least hundreds of millions. Competition will skyrocket and innovation/novel solutions will come at a pace we've never seen before. Also, Claude Code is nowhere near as unreliable as people think. "Vibe coding" will always fail. You have to impose intelligent structure onto the AI - define tight constraints, set architectural rules, have it review, keep track of failures and document them, setup and run test scripts, manage it's context. Aside from that, you have to think like a project manager, know how to use tools like git. If CC goes wrong, it's far more often the case that I mismanaged it rather than it just screwed up. When it makes a mistake, the first thing I ask is "what did I do wrong?". If you just crack it open and tell it you want X and if X is complex, then yes, the results won't be great. But if you learn the shit out of the tool first and how to guide it, you can build insanely complex stuff. Those who know how to get the most out of AI will be the ones who benefit the most from this new age, but it feels like the window will close relatively fast, so now is the time to get on it.
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Guys yes IA will change a lot of things but it sill just erase simple repetitive task, To people saying that you are doing filmaking, or video games or that you can replace employe, that depend what you are talking about : Yes it can replace precarious mindless and repetitive job, yes it can create slop and even do amazing animation, but you don't have the control of the detail needed to replace most of the important job, to make great movies, or great video games IA is the most intelligent tech created ever yet IA is still a dumb fuck, it will allow some people to have an easier life that's true but i really think the hype and expectations you get from it are exaggerated.
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@Leo Gura Flying cars are out now you can buy one today $200K. Not legal to fly over a city or airspace though
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There is certainly a confromist aspect to rejecting new tech. This requires a balance between hype vs stubborn rejection. I use AI to make art and thumbnails. It is cool. But it is not as great as the hype. I made some epic thumbnails for the future, but this is a very narrow application, not real intelligence. So it's not like I am anti-tech. I jumped into AI images very early. I also used AI to help improve my video outlines. I like AI as tools, not as people.
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There goes your inability to hold opposites again. Learn it, it'll do wonders for both your sense-making and emotional state. These things can be true at the same time. They are genuinely patriotic and greatly value their national identity, but also highly brainwashed and sometimes exaggerate displays of loyalty in fear of punishment. Crying and mourning is totally understandable and even admirable, but such extreme measures are problematic and counter-intuitively make the mourning less genuine than it could have otherwise been. As it always goes with morality at gunpoint. I'm no westerner, I'm intimately familiar with how such regimes and people under them operate. Just posted a mass-scale live performance of the Russian anthem in another thread, I know the words by heart and cry every time I sing it on New Year's Eve — the deeper I awaken to God & Love the more emotional it gets. The issues of which government is more or less evil, oppressive, untruthful, etc. are all inconsequential bickering over content in the grand scheme of things. These people experience cognitive dissonance which then generates a huge portion of mental and collective issues. I can tell you for a fact that many people in Russia feel oppressed, but would also die for their country if called upon it, even in a senseless war against a so-called fraternal nation like Ukraine. How do they square that? They can't, so the only way out is to bullshit themselves. Primitive minds can't operate in any other way. And then by extension everyone looking from the outside also doesn't understand this and get the same cognitive dissonance in another form by drawing these simplistic binary conclusions, taking either the pro-western or 'tankie' sides. That's all kids' stuff, your standard should be much higher, which is to go meta. Else what hope is there of escaping the matrix? The matrix tricks you by letting you think you escaped it, when in fact just a couple minor variables got shifted to create the appearance of something novel, more advanced, more trutful.
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I feel like art is basically a form of Creation but Creation goes well beyond art. Art is what is agreed to be creation. This is a good video to get started on this investigation:
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I edited my response above to clarify my stance. It's very useful tech, but you need to assess the situation soberly. Without the hype, what is the tech actually doing? What can it do? I personally use it. I used GPT a while ago to create a JavaScript script to separate a bunch of content from a book into chapters, set up my Linux system with Nvidia drivers, troubleshoot technical problems, and other shenanigans. I like it, and I understand that this is just LLMs. But take a look at Windows, as a concrete example. Most of the AI implementation is poorly executed and, oftentimes, just unnecessary. Microsoft desperately wants to profit from its investment, pushing the tech down people's throats. At some point, you'll want to get an appliance, and you'll find it labeled 'AI Toaster'.
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Creating religions is the future. But it will be a collaborative effort instead of resulting in wars. It's a beautiful possibility. Forget game design. What about Religion Design? That's ART.
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Boredom as Ontological Insight why boredom feels existential is boredom the ego dissolving? The link of overstimulation and loss of meaning.
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I remember these dumb as fuck boomers giving everybody lectures that they would never take a smartphone because they have a wired phone. They supposedly didn't need one. They would rather die than have one. And now those same people are on P2P messengers sending retarded emojis to each other. It is cool to be anti-the-new-thing. I don't need AI blabla. It is just the same script as for smartphones that they supposedly didn't need. And when it is not cool to be anti-the-new-thing they have this weird cognitive disonance and just forget what they said, and switch over like nothing happened. It is a fad, I know some porn addicted people who are on such phones. They all switch back to smartphones because if you have a serious job you can't run your life on dumb phones. Those phones are so certain type of special needs people.
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I will believe it when I see it.
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Still waiting on my flying car. Any day now. I am so confident I will take the full cost, convert it into cash, and lay the pile outside my front door for when my flying car arrives.
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Gen z generation are now going back to old phones, called dumb phones. https://vertu.com/lifestyle/why-is-gen-z-buying-dumb-phones-the-rise-of-digital-minimalism-in-2026/?srsltid=AfmBOooG5nH26oal8boiCqWPJR1DvcJ9BKoZoy80urDzyUVfbU_Wh3BZ
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zazen replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
@LordFall nice share. I think Jiang is predicting worst case outcomes - desalination plant is a major red line. Tbh this could spiral in multiple ways - a Kurdish insurgency is being armed and backed to do the regime change as we speak - probably as a alternative to boots on the ground which is simply catastrophic and which there’s little political will for. This is problematic for Turkey as it could force them to intervene and stabilise their side the border. It seems like if regime change isn’t achievable then regime implosion, chaos and balkanisation is the next best outcome - without care for the spillover affects of such a thing. Looks like carpet bombing or “mowing the lawn” the same term they use in operations in Gaza as Sky News just commented on also: Legend How prescient was Khameini - look at what he says half way through the following about trusting the West and negotiations and note how old the video is: -
Smartphones will be able to do your laundry, cure cancer, and cook you an omelette - all at the same time! Eliminate the excessive hype, and that’d be fine by me. As said, the tech is very useful and has a lot of potential, but it's not a panacea or miracle cure, despite what some people claim.
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When the first cars came out, there were people who said I rather die than get rid off my horse. I love my horse. A car can never replace my horse. A car can't keep me company, leave farts and make me laugh. Blabla. It is typical boomer talk. These people said the same thing about smartphone. They would never take a smartphone or 5G and now everybody is on it. We shouldn't take boomers too seriously nor should we try to convince them. Every century has them. Especially people's who's livelihood will be on the line will be in denial until one day they will wake up and have to face the music. They will feel like Neatherthalers amongst Homosapiens, but this time the homosapien will feel outmatched by AI integrated humans. There is nothing more integral and AI integrated humans.
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Dude I agree with so much of what you have to say except for your A.I pessimism. Try making a short film now with A.I. You can clearly see it's going to take out Hollywood in a few years and the power to the individual's ability to create is going to explode. Any kid on a laptop will be able to create a Hollywood-level film. It's gonna be a massive shift in how we experience reality.
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I am rewatching the episode on Not Knowing and realizing that I am posturing many things as known when I actually dont know. It feels that knowing is a sort of mechanism to avoid the fear of not knowing. Is like when you meet someone, one starts trying to gather information as soon as possible about the person in order to feel a sense of security, because to interact not knowing something about who is in front of you is subtly scary, who knows who is this person in front of you? Maybe a psyco and one wish to fill the gap knowing something about him or her very fast. We do this with reality all the time, trying to fake we know it all, avoiding with all costs living in not knowing.
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