We are living in a boring dystopia
Expanding on this long excellent thread
Expanding on this long excellent thread
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
If software is eating the world, startups should focus on new types of food, that's the logic!
Pregnancy will stop your career progression, you should wait to retirement. Except, that's not how biology works
Societal change might be possible, but for the time being just calculate carefully how long you can continue to postpone pregnancy, ok?
cnbc.com/2018/08/19/wom…
Societal change might be possible, but for the time being just calculate carefully how long you can continue to postpone pregnancy, ok?
cnbc.com/2018/08/19/wom…
I still have to summarize this, it's a great text, but time-costly to read it:
diigo.com/0ba10w
Anyway, your life is not yours. Sacrifice every second of it to Moloch or die now:
diigo.com/0ba10w
Anyway, your life is not yours. Sacrifice every second of it to Moloch or die now:
You reap what you sow
The inertia from definite optimism is still improving the life of those catching up, but indefinite optimism has led to stagnation in the forefront
If nothing changes, only dystopia awaits
The inertia from definite optimism is still improving the life of those catching up, but indefinite optimism has led to stagnation in the forefront
If nothing changes, only dystopia awaits
There are strong forces pulling towards dystopia, and strong signs we can see every day
Bullshit jobs may be the safest jobs, and so every job will gradually be converted into a bullshit job or disappear due to automation until all jobs are 100% bullshit
In a world where the usability of technology has advanced and feels natural, while the environment has been destroyed and is hostile to human life…
If you have a good credit score, you do not need to rent a car, you take one from a vending machine and use it for free for three days
Forget about Mars, we need the technology to sustain human life on Earth
Funny, and sad
Found in this thread:
Academia, the tip of the spear of human knowledge, is a mindless boring dystopia. What can we expect from the rest of society?
Post-truth at its finest
Persuasion replaces facts, education, science, truth,…
The vulcanian utopia of the age of enlightenment is dead, the dystopia of the people as automata/apes/zombies devoid of reason or free will is uncontested for now
Persuasion replaces facts, education, science, truth,…
The vulcanian utopia of the age of enlightenment is dead, the dystopia of the people as automata/apes/zombies devoid of reason or free will is uncontested for now
Post-truth and persuasion in academia
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." — Oscar Wilde
This is where the productivity gains from technology go
This is where the productivity gains from technology go
The success in your career depends on your ability to explain your insights in simple ways to the most powerful and least educated decision makers
If necessary, resort to puppets
If necessary, resort to puppets
Do you want to get the treatment that will allow you to survive?
Tell your story in the best perspective in a crowdfunding platform to afford its prohibitive prices, set by companies competing (secretly reinventing the wheel) for diminishing returns
Tell your story in the best perspective in a crowdfunding platform to afford its prohibitive prices, set by companies competing (secretly reinventing the wheel) for diminishing returns
In the future, humans will work (bullshit jobs) and robots will play games and have sex, proving who are the overlords and who are the blood and flesh bootloader
futurism.com/the-byte/oral-…
futurism.com/the-byte/oral-…
Fine post-apocalyptic steampunk
Technology allows high-tech from individuals. Large organizations like insurance or a state are nowhere to be found
Technology allows high-tech from individuals. Large organizations like insurance or a state are nowhere to be found
Pigs don't get enough attention in SciFi
This is how dystopias are born: a service/product from which people cannot opt out (eg healthcare) is perceived as a business opportunity. The externalities are the freedom & well-being of the people. Markets do the most profitable here: worsen the problem
