"It’s becoming clear that a huge part of what generative AI offers is just helping people avoid feeling uncomfortable feelings.

Don’t want to push through the cognitive discomfort of writing your own essay? Let AI write it.

Want a friend who will always validate your ideas and never tell you you’re fulla shit? We’ve got the perfect companion for you.

Don’t want to risk being rejected when you ask a girl out? Date this chatbot who will never tell you no.

Don’t want to feel the grief of losing a loved one? Here’s an app that will create a chatbot replacement for them so you can pretend they never left.

Don’t want to go through all the mental and emotional labor of learning a new skill, building a healthy romantic partnership, or creating a work of art? GenAI has got you covered.

It’s the next level of services designed to help the denizens of dystopia avoid their feelings and sedate their emotions into a coma while the world goes to shit. It’s the same reason they kept alcohol legal while banning psychedelics that puts us in touch with our feelings, and why they feed us all the TV, streaming platforms, and social media scrolling we can stand.

Our rulers want us dumb, distracted, vapid and dissociated. And they definitely don’t want us feeling the horror, grief and rage we should all be experiencing in response to this nightmare of a civilization they have designed for us."

This applies to any drug or distraction (including entertainment and consumption fetishism) that is meant to numb your feelings, pacify and tranquilize you, keep you passive and lethargic in the face of the injustice and inhumanity of the capitalist-imperialist system. Feel your feelings, get sad and then get angry, let those feelings drive you, let them motivate you to do something, take action, fight, and never surrender to powerlessness, hopelessness and tacit acceptance.

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    It’s ironic then that her entire brand is making arguments that other people can reuse so they don’t have to make their own.

    Ohh! shots fired! This is a spot on way of framing her post though.

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      Oh I would be much nicer to her if she wasn’t falling off the edge right now and if there was a chance to have a discussion with her like if she was a commenter on lemmygrad. Her coverage of Palestine is what made me unfollow shortly before I started getting her takes on AI. I don’t remember entirely what she was saying but she was getting called out by Palestinians and I agreed with them.

      Edit: it was absolutely tone deaf posts minimising the genocide in Sudan and trying to refocus people on Palestine. compounded by the fact she claimed we are allowed to oppose the genocide in Sudan but not Gaza, the consequences of having no material analysis.