Anyone getting flashbacks the cyberpunk and the AI vending machine?

https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Brendan

Same.

All the old Aspies are watching alone from the corner of the room saying to themselves, “wtf is wrong with this guy?”

Discovered some cool German bands back in college because of last.fm

Might outlast the US.

I enjoyed it. Bit of a different way to do an interview.

It’s only now time?

This is going to make a world similar to the Time Machine. A massive group will happily outsource their need to think for the pleasure of leisure.

That fetish already exists.

But that’s the thing, they can have you pay for a 2000 dollar refrigerator and still send you ads.

I have to say, minority report really did a good job portraying parts of the future.

Wait was he the guy that hosted all of those academic articles and was prosecuted for it, the killed himself?

They will either be brainwashed into being good little Russian breeders, or end up on pornhub.

Bet some of them lost, or about to lose, their job to ai

Nice, thanks for sharing your experience.

I’ve only known a few go through St John’s and they are all very intelligent, yet partially disconnected from modern life, sort of like the Amish.

Yeah, I was recently introduced to Bonhoeffer, his insight is incredible and the fact that similar mistakes are taking place today.

Peter Turchin is as close to Hari Seldon I think we’ll have, his models point to a lot of turmoil in the future.

I want someone to do a study of people who graduate from St johns vs people from say nyu or similar and how they function in today’s society.

Someone I work with puts every question they have into GPT. They are completely incapable of having an original thought anymore.

GPT is causing real life brain rot for the general public.

I lol’d

Twice? Shiiiii