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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Many of the AI evangelists have at least sympathies with Accelerationism. Their whole idea is to rush to civilization collapse so it can be rebuild it in their image. What's sacrificing a few billion people if trillions of transhumans can be engineered tomorrow, say the tech bros.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of the population in the developed world right now has crashed headfirst into this societal "wall" of isolation and hopelessness, with feelings of being wedged between issues that encroach from all sides as they doomscroll every day.

A lot of people right now are creeping over the "ironic" boundary when talking about ideas like the end of the world, ending their lives, the end of humanity, etc. People just want the discomfort to stop, and for many people it feels like the only way out is absolute chaos and doom because our system is now just too complicated and politics and sociology is too complicated and emotionally challenging to actually focus on and address in a serious, problem-solving way. Much less having the mental fortitude to actually stand up for your beliefs against the inevitable mountain of resistance you will face for having ANY kind of stance or opinion.

It depresses people in large scale, it makes people behave weirdly.

And this was all happening before covid hit and just shook the damn soda can.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the expression: "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism."

The current system is indeed slowly ripped apart by its own internal contradictions, just as all other systems in the past did, but the new system is not there yet. The in-between is always a confusing time while people try to cling to the old system like Stockholm syndrome to their captors. It's only going to get worse. I can't say I have any signs of a viable new systems appearing. There have been attempts, not nothing that can stand up to that resistance you mentioned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

the new system is not there yet.

I'm glad at least one other person gets it, where we're at and what our actual situation is.

My worry is about how bad things are going to get before the "new system" begins to solidify. We have like, three or four different serious wildcards that are so unpredictable that I can't fathom what the next four decades are going to look like. We're about to see the fastest and most profound changes to society in all recorded history, but we still have brains that were developed in the Ice Age for surviving bears and wolves. We're not the rational, thinking species we think we are and we're about to collectively run headlong into that reality for the first time as a species.