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by srj 66 days ago
We have the prospect of AI destroying humanity and living life underground. It's more like The Matrix every day.
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I maintain the position that people will chose to go into the matrix
With TikTok and co they already kinda did.
Its not AI, its humanity itself. There is no AI, because none of those tools are actually autonomous. There no AI commenters here or anywhere, it is always humans causing that slop to be posted.

Anyway, this idea goes back to long before The Matrix, try H G Wells The War of the Worlds, ably voiced by David Essex and Richard Burton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcAwrLzhnzQ

Both of those are stories you’re being told, not reality. Consider that the current seemingly apocalyptic near term future may be a mass-media induced mass delusion.