It’s not just reading, people don’t want to mentally engage with things. There are people who would rather read movie reviews than go watch a movie and form their own opinion on it.

Engaging with material will always require something of the audience. We can try to make things as accessible and easy to understand as possible, but that doesn’t “solve” the problem, it just lowers the bar. Lowering the bar isn’t bad, but it seems like the wrong strategy for the current era. I think a better strategy is attempting to foster and enthusiastic community at a local level. Get together with friends on the weekends and mess around with stuff in person, talk about it.

Barely passed your English classes as well I assume. /s

I’d say the biggest problem with AI is that it’s being treated as a tool to displace workers, but there is no system in place to make sure that that “value” (I’m not convinced commercial AI has done anything valuable) created by AI is redistributed to the workers that it has displaced.

Hard work and passion.

Sometimes staring into the abyss lets me surpass my panic and find a certain peace that motivates me.

For example after reading “Before The Law” I thought to myself “I wonder what the man’s life would’ve been like if he chose not to seek entrance into the law, but instead lived by his own principles. It could’ve been a whole different story.”

Cool! I felt like I just read a weird version of Samurai Jack. I’ll have to check out more of his work.

I feel like I should read at least one book by Kafka. Any recommendations?

The dark ages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_standards?wprov=sfti1

Read up!

I’m downloading this and contributing to prove the haters wrong. Y’all are gonna regret not being able to say “I toad a so” like me.

Let’s fuckin’ give it the best we got. Deal?

There’s nothing inherently wholesome or obscene about the cycle of death and rebirth. It simply is. 🧘

I assume that when they die they’ll wake up from their wizard coma and it will coincide with some sort of cool plot point. Maybe his wizard body gets kissed by a frog or something.

Because you’re more grounded.

The fixation on “completing” things isn’t healthy imo. An attitude like that will rob you of the ability to find joy. I have to eat every day, sleep every night, and do laundry on a weekly basis. None of these things will ever be “done” for as long as I’m alive. Being “complete” is being dead.

Yeah but what if you’re the AI twin and you’re in the metaverse right now playing out a recursive simulation? Is focusing on better paying jobs really what you want to spend your time doing?

It’ll try at least, lol

Without appropriate structure will we be able to effectively communicate ideas?

The Bible and Shrek are both human mythology. Stories we’ve created, learned, and lived that encapsulate aspects of the lived human experience.

People existed before money, and they can exist after it.