• Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    This is the machine logic, people’s thought patterns are and will be influenced by the technology that they “offshore” their investigative impulses and deductive reasoning to. I have been saying this for years even on this site.

    lisan-al-gaib Butlerian Jihad now.

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      Wow this is such a boomer Luddite take. By saying that you’re only going to be further left behind as everyone else continues to use this technology. People said the same thing about tv and radio! Now excuse me while I ask ChatGPT if my three sentences sufficiently destroyed you.

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        You are correct. According to Grok these are expressions of psychosis related to obsessing over 1960’s fiction and a deep-seated fear of change.

        ChatGPT also told me I should ask my doctor if Zoloft is right for me.

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      I sometimes just don’t pay my internet bill for the summer and touch grass. I’ll still torrent stuff off my work wifi and post on work wifi but it means if I’m at home I can’t Google things. I have totally found with the first time doing so which was for like 2 years cause poverty that I was thinking things through more carefully and there were a lot of answers that I could put together with what I already know and some logic. It can be good to operate without instant resources to information

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        Yes, I am serious but I am also joking about Butlerian Jihad. It’s not just that people need to touch grass, people need to engage with the greater world around them unmediated at least in some capacity. Part of the existential shithole that is living in the west is the hyper-atomization. insert sappy paragraph about how love is the antidote, engage with the people and wildlife in your life and the planet itself on whatever terms in any capacity.

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          Speaking of wildlife, I had a close encounter just the other day:

          Very handsome and begging for chips extremely politely. (They also have a beautiful song but this one wasn’t making any sounds, it snuck up on me so I looked up and WHOA MAGPIE BEAK RIGHT BY MY EYE. Top three bird imo.)

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          I just like doing my own thinking. I’m not far from a library where there are lots of books and people trained to help me get the ones I need to learn the thing I want to learn, the longer it takes to get an answer the better the answer usually