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Sakura94
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- Nov 26, 2020
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The way new technology interferes with life which ultimately alters you as a person too as routines change and older tech is replaced.
Well, I could mention that today's technology facilitates an immense amount of things, which in turn makes me feel a sense of emptiness, I don't know who else feels that wayThe way new technology interferes with life which ultimately alters you as a person too as routines change and older tech is replaced.
Well, I could mention that today's technology facilitates an immense amount of things, which in turn makes me feel a sense of emptiness, I don't know who else feels that way
I forgot to mention, if I CTB it'll be in part b/c of homelessness & poverty, due to job loss, due to not keeping up w/ tech change, due to feeling overwhelmed with the amount and speed of said tech change and not knowing where to best direct my time / efforts / $$.I absolutely 100% think there have been suicides b/c of tech. I think they've been hidden a little bit b/c so many of them are middle-aged men without post-secondary education, a group which (I believe) has a disproportionately high suicide rate already.
Technology makes people live longer. Things like medicine, seat belt, air bag make people live like in a green house with little threat. Many people should have died long ago. More people but machine has already taken over most routine but previously meaningful tasks, like factory work, farming. To stay within the power structure people have to create new jobs and new weird things to do. In some places, they keep idle people busy by building ghost towns. In other places they have a things called social media in which people dance and do funny things in front of the camera. For those who don't like any of these and can't find a place in the power structure they just want to quit.The way new technology interferes with life which ultimately alters you as a person too as routines change and older tech is replaced.
we got conspiracy theorists claiming that all our scientific understanding is false because it doesn't attune to their worldview. All of this coupled with algorithm-powered echo chambers and the relative anonymity of the internet, the ugliness of human nature has been amplified. These aren't just some guys with tin foil hats, but mainstream politicians and their followers
I saw that coming a long time ago but only because I think of the near future a lot for my writing. I have numerous disabilities and look awful so I saw my creativity as a way of moving past my physical body. It is naïve anyway though when you understand how computers work and even just being able to use this website means unfathomable calculations so far removed from human experience we don't consider it.On a more personal level, the development of language models like GPT-3 and the general public's algorithmic tastes mean my dreams of becoming a career writer were crushed. Naturally, this has a bearing on my suicidality as my one talent now has no value.
"remove the stigma behind mental health" are actually the ones creating the stigma.