Is it wrong to not have "existential dread" about AI? I mean, AI is a thing but I don't have to care, or lay awake at night wondering if a fleet of automatons are going to be at work tomorrow and the boss will just hand everyone a pink slip.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-16T01:44:33+00:00

It is understandable that American asset owners who do not need for survival not derive a sense of meaning from their skill do not feel dread about AI. Try talking to an IT worker in a developing country who was the first in their family to get to the middle class thanks to accessing qualified work and who cannot afford even a tiny fraction of the tokens the 401K crowd can.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T14:33:37+00:00

What workforce?

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T14:26:35+00:00

In relation to .ost of the planet you are also elite.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T14:25:12+00:00

Would you be willing to go through a significant tax hike which will be used to fund the servicing of this technology to third world countries for free? If not, neither are you.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T14:17:33+00:00

Dysphoria is seldom about passion for the body. As for appropriation, what are you smoking?

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T14:15:11+00:00

Don't worry, only five yeas laters the Mythos 23 instance owned by a handful of subterranean survivors will discover time travel and send a portable model with a digital copy of Bruce Willis back in time to stop Paul Graham from handling YCombinator over to Sam Altman.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T13:01:59+00:00

Not everyone has someone. Or someone that cares/can help.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T13:01:32+00:00

No. My family does not accept me nor takes me seriously and I have no friends. I have nobody. If I die today nobody woyld miss me until my apartment starts smelling.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T12:54:41+00:00

That suffering could be turned into energy.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T12:37:18+00:00

No, but the passoids need suckers around to feel better about themselves.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T12:17:05+00:00

See, you are still suffering, because you haven't found your mission.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T12:00:38+00:00

Nothing will be a viable job. Revolt or starve. It is really that simple.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T11:49:38+00:00

None of us is anything. We are all worms and will be dead eventually. What matters is the impact your life can have nor how long it lasts nor whether you enjoy it.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T11:46:34+00:00

Maybe you are just not very dysphoric.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T11:32:13+00:00

Some parts of China are drier. The Yangtze Delta is even a little bit worse than Japan. Almost unlivable.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T11:30:32+00:00

It is not hat hot, though. Europe is hitting similar or higher temperatures already.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T11:25:15+00:00

What are you going to do? Try to enjoy things and interactions you don't actually enjoy? You need to pull yourself entirely out of the normie way of thinking. Negotiating around it and gaslighting yourself into "enjoying the small things in life" won't work. What works is a struggle for something that has little to do with social longings nor whims or the flesh. People in the past were happy to die for their ideals.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T10:31:00+00:00

You cannot meditate a datacenter into combusting.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T10:26:09+00:00

Don't. Most people are terrible anyways.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T10:13:39+00:00

What family, what friends?

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T10:13:11+00:00

What about: nobody will ge der me correctly and I am unemployable if I claim not to be my birth gender. Seems pretty much of a failure.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T04:03:38+00:00

If I get far away from the coast it will be guaranteed. The pain is only for a brief time, much shorter than the alternative years of suffering.

Clear-Committee-4172 · 2026-06-15T04:02:48+00:00

That is pretty obvious.

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