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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

hacker news is illiterate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44245053

I question whether or not some of these commenters have a theory of mind. The product under discussion is a horror show of reified solipsism. For the commenters, books are merely the written form of the mouth noises they use to get other meat robots to do things and which are sometimes entertaining when piled up in certain ways.

"Words or bodies?" you might ask. Yes.

PS: channeling the spiritu drilum

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44246874

You cannot stop people from making the world worse or better. The best you can do is focus on your own life.

In time many will say we are lucky to live in a world with so much content, where anything you want to see or read can be spun up in an instant, without labor.

And though most will no longer make a living doing some of these content creation activities by hand and brain, you can still rejoice knowing that those who do it anyway are doing it purely for their love of the art, not for any kind of money. A human who writes or produces art for monetary reasons is only just as bad as AI.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

so much content

The choice of, or instinctive reaching for, the word content speaks volumes.

where anything you want to see or read can be spun up in an instant, without labor.

"Without labor," sure.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

Gross and heartbreaking

If we do so much shit for "monetary reasons" then why do I give so much of my money to a landlord every month? Or a fucking grocery store?