Comment by CooCooCaCha
1 month ago
I’m so intensely sick of this attitude. We are losing things with technology. Important things. Human things.
Looking under a microscope at one specific instance and saying “eh it’s not that bad, you’re overreacting” is disingenuous or at least putting your head in the sand.
Imagine a library. You go in, grab a book, and start reading.
Imagine the same library, but it's the Unseen University's Library - you go in, grab one of any book ever written, and start reading. You've gained something!
Imagine the library is now the Library of Babel, it contains every possible book that could ever exist - https://libraryofbabel.info/browse.cgi
You've definitely lost something. You'll never hit "random" and find anything of value.
You want human things? Put down the technology and go and connect with some humans.
But yes, the original poster with their allusions to lost limbs and "pointless swinging in a vast, unquantifiable emptiness.." is overreacting, depressed or both.
The slop will continue until it is no longer profit-making for someone.
Appeals to individualism and capitalism, why am I not surprised.
It's worked so well in the past, surely it will work this time.
The fact that profit motives exist and motivate people isn't an "appeal to capitalism", it's just a statement of reality. The best way to stop slop is to put it out of business. People don't make slop for social prestige.
> is overreacting, depressed or both.
even if it is, that is their feelings. your outright dismissal of them is far more sad in my opinion than their feelings. lack of empathy is a truly sad state.