Dissenting opinion: you have powered a mech suit of bone your entire life.

I can dig it, fam. It’s not really a “shower thought” as defined in the sidebar, tho, it’s more like a microfiction. Or the kind of “nugget” you’d write in a journal where you collect ideas to later build on.

Awesome! Facebook becomes nothing but AI, undergoes a singularity, and sucks capitalism in with it. Then we can just put it all in a box, bury it, and the rest of us live in utopia.

So… there was some kind of thought experiment about an AI that was optimized for making paperclips and it took over the world… I never really got the point of that one.

But if you’ve ever called tech support at a big company, at some point you realize you’re not talking with people, but with scripts that someone wrote and are forcing the people to read. So: how about a steampunk novel in which a company becomes “sentient” because everything is automated through business processes, including executive decisions? This sounds like something that might already have been done, so you’d have to do some background reading.

Alternately, I believe sophisticated algorithms are used to predict market trends… but imagine if one of those algorithms begins defining itself in such a way that “something happens”… I dunno this one requires a bit more thought…

That’s not a true statement. It’s barely coherent. But it’s kinda got a kind of surreal charm to it… like with a bit of work you could turn it into a great science fiction story or a thought experiment.

It’s a little more complicated than that obviously. If you want the details once you get out of the shower, you can start here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/

Depends how you count “largest”. If you go by active users, fediverse observer says lemm.ee is second: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

• lemmy.world 19182
• lemm.ee 8037
• lemmynsfw.com 3789
• sh.itjust.works 2977
• lemmy.ml 2430

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Same with industrial music! (especially if no lyrics)

ikr OP has never been to a US county fair. They take any food, and deep-fry it.

I can’t just assume everyone is just giving up

But if people really are just giving up, we need to recognize it.

I think a lot of people are unhappy but don’t know what to do. Just going to a general protest doesn’t seem like enough. And there’s no obvious leader to the opposition.

This is the stage of the conflict where we try to minimize the damage until the next election. That’s not a very motivating message, but that’s where we are. I suggest you pick an organization and do what you can with them. There are others, but personally I picked Indivisible:

• https://indivisible.org/resource/guide
• https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

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I thought this kind of thing was funny too, until I started reading about scam centers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam_center

Turns out it’s often carried out by people who have been human trafficked, and if they don’t make good scammers they get forced into prostitution.