the world seems to actively hate the idea of kids having something that remotely looks like choice.

Replace that with “power seems to actively hate the idea of anyone having anything that remotely looks like choice”. Mostly because everything is determined. And they know this. They understand that nothing is up to chance. We’re perfect little bots who respond deterministically (albeit chaotically) to sex, advertisement, gambling, propaganda, drugs, and so on. Basically all aspects of modern life are designed to chip away at your degrees of freedom. Consider a mortgage, for instance. It locks you into a job so that you can’t afford to quit anymore, or you end up destitute. Then consider marriage: it exists so that you buy a house and so that you have children in it. Every choice we think we’re making clicks like a ratchet and locks us into a lower energy state that’s easy to control.

Or… and I’m prepared to receive flak for this. But consider transitioning in the US specifically. On one side you have Dems coddling you, and on the other side you have Republicans threatening to murder you. So once you transition you’re a Dem voter for life even if you don’t agree on their other policies. Both parties are playing the same game behind your back.

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But when an LLM adds more to the conversation than the average poster, you have to start wondering what the fuck we are even doing here.

Because it’s a carbon copy of reddit and it replicates all of its problems in miniature. Also because everyone in here is extremely exclusionary and hateful of anyone who isn’t wholesome 100. Also because it’s decentralized but not peer to peer, which means that it’s basically feudalism.

I mean sure but you’re using the term “conservative” which is deeply embedded in american rhetoric. You’re basically saying that anyone who isn’t an ardent communist or anarchist should die, which is not exactly what Popper meant either…

Conservative just means opposed to radical change. Sometimes the world gets enshittified. Sometimes a thing you gave for granted changes, and the change hurts because you know what it was like before.

Doing or thinking anything over 1 standard deviation from what the middle of the bell curve endorses, I guess.

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Google was born from In-Q-Tel. they’re literally the CIA. How uninformed is the average internet user to not see that the entire techbro oligopoly is simply the mask dropping? Sometimes I wonder what the koolaid tastes like. To believe that things just happen uncaused, that geopolitics is the weather, and that conspiracies are better explained by emergent behavior. That it’s never malice, just stupidity. That the top 1% is not on the far end of the bell curve, that they’re not merely pretending to be retarded. You know it’s like looking at the top chess players and concluding that it’s not skill (or anal beads), but dumb luck.

In other words the thing I’m mocking (and being downvoted for) is the notion that Google can be split up when it acts as an extension of the government. It’s like asking a person to cut off their own arm. Of course they won’t.