The fact im storing up on dozens of antipsychotics (cause yay i was feeling better and i didnt need but my doc wanted me on them) now doesnt sound such a bad idea, maybe i can just absolutely dismantle all my brain functions into death or becoming a vegetal, you know, live life but keep your options opened, I’d hate to live like a removed like that, always being watched like if i was on reality TV or some bullshit, i read a bit on the TV stuff (i think you are referencing 1984 or bnw maybe) but i dont have a tv, a pc is more than enough

I don’t see many ways out really, its depressing

you mean you have, or you mean you should in theory, have those

could i ask what you do/avoid doing? im curious (ofc if you feel comfy sharing)

I mean, that’s kinda the whole point about anything that steals your agency, If I could be 100% sure no doubt in my mind that the entity/person that recorder all my data from birth to death would never use it for anything that could harm me, yea record even my gooning sessions, my psychological breakdowns, all my breakups etc etc etc

Thing is you can’t really make that assumption in this world, also because you not only need your current overlords to be 100% good, but every single new overlord you are going to get in the future (at least for the next few decades while you are still alive)

following on the analogy, what lube-like policy you think could end up being introduced to facilitate such a process? (if any)

Yeah, that sounds like a pain, as you can’t check that (you wont slice them open), but % of pacemaker/vital tech should be super small

That makes sense

Yeah, but how do you think it will change the way you or society at general for that matter will live life?

do you know if you can have tech offline being 100% secure it won’t connect to anything? like foiling out a room (faraday) and then using tech inside it to like listen to music or play LAN, i get that phones could still record so i would still have those outside tho

I wish…

mind explaining double think? i read the book back on highschool, but i never understood it more than like doublethink is a contradictory way of thinking so its easier to accept nonsensical or paradoxical things “dad loves me so much” - “dad beats the shit out of me if i cook the food to long” living together, something like that?

when underage i did ONE video call with an adult, to think that might be somewhere out there… man that’s funny

Thank you so much, I’ve been looking for frameworks on what tf to do about it, like how to live my life now, I’ve been depressed for a bit so I havent left the house much in the last few years and now that this update hit the server i dont know what the best moves are, its a totally novel situation for me, i read the panopticon but not much more than that, i literally dont know how life will turn out now

I heard some investors were happy for this to happen as too much money was getting spent on datacenters, so a slowdown could be good for them in the long term, like a breather to pile up some more cash to go at it again

AI is just so big of a thing to ever stop, you might get small bumps here and there but you would need to stop it WORLDWIDE for something like this to work, no country will want to be in a permanent disadvantage by not using AI, and even if AI is “banned” how do you actually enforce it? Such a powerful technology would still be used even after the ban, they would just hide it better

It also pisses people off sometimes: “Ugh… Protesters again, now my commute will take 15min longer, what the fuck is wrong with these people… GO TO WORK FUCKING HIPPIES!” As if they were part of the upper class lol, I like how gary from gary’s economics explains it, you are not part of the elite, policies that benefit the elite hurt you, as resources are limited wealth has to come from somewhere, if the rich are getting richer faster that means you also go poor faster

adjusts glasses mhh ackshually… Well like if you mean the start of puberty (8-13) yes fuck that, but its not pedophilia after a certain age by definition. If you feel calling it pedophilia cause it has extra shock value sure, you can try and do that, but it’s just untrue.

While I agree the younger you go the more icky it gets, 18 as the cutoff is completely arbitrary and a 16y/o could be way more mature than an 18y/o in a ton of cases, of course there are special protections even for 16/17 (some considering bigger age gaps worse even if everything else is proper and legal)

I don’t feel I was any differently prepared to engage in sex at 16 compared to 18, if we are gonna argue that we should drive age of consent to 21y/o maybe instead. Or higher.

So “mature enough” could be untrue even for something that’s 23 years old or older, while no longer pedo after the defined pedophilia cutoff age is just a fact.

What do you expect off of a man literally called Gary OLD-MAN

whot? there’s a website for it https://www.ezmdl.com/ it doesn’t allow you to query massive downloads, (you can do playlists, but to do multiple playlists at the same time you gotta duplicate the window and put each playlist in a new tab) but it has no ads and is super simple, a kid could use this one (limited to mp4 and mp3 with no quality options, but still)

whot? there’s a website for it https://www.ezmdl.com/ it doesn’t allow you to query massive downloads, (you can do playlists, but to do multiple playlists at the same time you gotta duplicate the window and put each playlist in a new tab) but it has no ads and is super simple, a kid could use this one (limited to mp4 and mp3 with no quality options, but still)

ephebophilia From what I just googled ephebophilia starts at 15, 11-14 is hebephilia, I think a lower age of consent in some cases can be argued (I think it’s already a thing that in special cases it is already allowed, for example, a 16-17 y/o with someone who is 18-20) with special protections in place, like keeping a close look at the relationship and power dynamics.

Talking about this as a non-professional pedo (sarcasm), as I once dated 16 while I was 19, yea, a bit icky, but legal. I think the law as it is already contemplates underaged relationships enough, I think it even contemplates 16-17 with older adults even, again with a ton of restrictions (you can get charged super fast if the relationship has abuses that might pass as normal fights in a same age relationship, stuff like that)

I think its perfect as it is really. Safe enough for most and even giving a bit for the most depraved, impatient people of society that don’t wanna necessarily wait

I think you should flat out not accept anything 15 and lower, you’re cutting too close to the person not being mature enough, a 16 y/o is pretty close to 18 when it comes to maturity, but go to 15,14,13, and that’s not a thing anymore, 12 and less is insane to even think about.