• 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    12 days ago

    Remember the murder you committed yesterday?

    What you don’t remember?

    It’s literally in your phone, you recorded yourself committing the murder yesterday and you blacked out.

    Here: look at this totally-not-deepfaked-video-that-the-government-just-manufactured-to-gaslight-you

    Dont worry, it already automatically synced to the cloud.

    (Coming soon, 2027)

  • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    12 days ago

    You can just stop using content-aggregation websites like reddit, youtube or twitter.

    Seriously, it’s hard at first because you have no idea how addicted your brain is for content and information about the world, but after a few weeks you will settle back into how you were in the before times, and may even have a desire to sit and watch a whole TV show or movie without scrolling, or you might even read a “book.”

    (Books are these things that have “content” encoded in text on sheets of pressed wood cellulose, ask your grandparents about them. Side effects include enhanced imagination, retention of knowledge, images and ideas forming spontaneously in your mind, and simulated experiences that create actual emotional responses.)

    You won’t miss out on anything, I promise. Our species has existed for thousands of years without you knowing what’s going on, we will continue to exist for millennia without you knowing what’s going on, just read up on your local political candidates when election season rolls around and you’re golden.

      • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        12 days ago

        Yep, basically anything that delivers new “things” to you that requires a level of updating and re-engagement over and over with a sense of looking for something that’s interesting to you, especially including anything that supplants socializing with comments on the internet by random strangers.

        I feel like it was different in the days when we just read a morning newspaper, because it wasn’t all interesting or relevant to us, it was just informative and you got “today’s concerns” and then set it down and used it for kindling or bird cage lining later. There was no need to pick it up again and see if anything changed.

        Here we train our brains to feel like they’re going to get “interesting stuff” on demand, and it creates an expectation for that dopamine reward over and over, so whatever you read that doesn’t give you that feeling becomes less interesting. This is why so many of us can’t finish a book or sit through a movie, it’s just conditioning.

  • Themistocles@lemmy.world
    7·
    12 days ago

    The internet is becoming so grossly corporate anyways that if AI is the thing that finally pushes us all back outside maybe it’s ultimately a good thing. There’s only so much recursive enshittification a person can take before they walk away. We really saw the golden age of the internet come and go, sad to see it happen