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It might be time to take a sabbatical

• arionhardison 20d ago
  Why and from what? Because you feel my statement was incoherent or because you believe the general conceit is flawed? Edit: I am not in anyway trying to be obtuse or reductive, I simply want to understand your statement. Apologies if it comes across that way.
  • mcmcmc 20d ago
    > Loss of meaning, purpose, place etc... The one thing we used as a ranking metric is now a commodity, so....? I don't even know how to finish that. So why care, why work...shit just why? This sounds a bit like depression, I think they’re genuinely concerned for your wellbeing
    • arionhardison 20d ago
      Thats totally fair, and TBH - I am also very concerned for my wellbeing as well; I and many others are not doing so well because, in my case I no longer see this "vapid" state of existence as ephermial. I have been reading more and more; I guess looking ot knowledge as some eort of ends vs a means to an end for once. Camus, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Dostoevsky's underground man etc... Camus: The universe was always going to stay silent when you demand meaning from it; the answer isn't a better metric, it's to push the rock anyway ("imagine Sisyphus happy"). Dostoevsky [underground man]: Refusing to be a piano key in someone's optimized Crystal Palace Stokely Carmichael: "Racism is not a question of attitude, it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism." My conclusion: AI didn't take our meaning, It made me realize I have always been looking in the wrong place and thus reacting ignoratly when I felt "denied" this thing I feel entitled to. Love. Edit: Love; paradoxically, ive felt both entitled to and unworthy of so I'm not sure WTF to do with that.
• folkrav 18d ago
  To come back to what?