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0 pointshypfer28d ago0 comments

AI has "just" greatly accelerated/amplified dysfunction that was already there previously.

Even before AI, you often weren't truly talking with other real people on the web. Even if it was an actual human that responded, online tribalism led to erasure of said human-ness.

So from that standpoint, being exhausted by not talking to real humans might be good or at least necessary.

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dabbledash28d ago· 3 in thread

The sad thing is it happens in real life too. You'll talk to people and it's like 25% of their brain has been taken over by a parasite that replicates itself by amplifying their tribe's Talking Point of The Day. You have to just wait for them to get it out and then you can talk to the real person again.

hypferOP28d ago

I had people actually in-person scream at me, because I refused to engage with the engagement bait they had downloaded from tiktok or wherever.

Digital opioid crisis, this tribalism thing.

A lot of people do not seem to be doing well, which seems to be the foundation of many of the business models of the employers of people here on HN.

Digital copioid crisis.

winter_blue28d ago

> You'll talk to people and it's like 25% of their brain has been taken over by a parasite that replicates itself by amplifying their tribe's Talking Point of The Day.

This is so true.

So many people just parrot whatever nonsensical talking point they heard.

Regurgitating things without an ounce of reflection or critical thought.

tardedmeme28d ago

Got any examples?

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