I’m at 1:14 and already smell the bullshit, let’s continue…
5:33 and there are already 2 very close doomsday dates proposed. The religious vibes intensify…
6:31 She correctly assumes that various systems are interconnected, and will crumble if one falls down, but does not seem to account for the one strength human beings posess (we suck in all other aspects), and that’s adaptation and our ability to coordinate when immediate short term danger is under way.
6:42 Overcomplicated societies crumbling under their own weight! That’s more like my jam. Although, that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
12:45 Appeal to nature, appeal to the go back to the good old times.
Jesus christ, this has been a 15 minutes long setup for a logical fallacy.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 days ago
While I’ve been thinking about this kind of thing for years, it’s still a bit startling to see it addressed so frankly in front of a large audience, and of course further spread to many more people via video archival. I don’t know how many potential viewers are quite ready to see this without reacting pretty badly, but of course… she certainly does speak facts.
That said, I’ve no argument whatsoever for her and anyone else doing whatever feels healthy and right in the face of collapse, but really, there’s much more to address here, as in– what it’s like to live when an AI singularity really gets rolling, or when dictatorship becomes that much worse, or when simply trying to exist gets much harder and more dangerous. To me, all that’s kind of the undropped shoe of a discussion, so to speak.
Eq0@literature.cafe 1 day ago
I keep wondering if buying a plot of land in the countryside and start looking into sustenance agriculture is a reasonable course of action or not…
CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol 1 day ago
Always has been