peppersky

I'm despairing at living in this all-encompassing emptiness that is neoliberal late stage murderous genocidal capitalism and then also just being a lonely fat loser idiot.

Genuinely believe we live in the worst times in the history of the world. Nothing could be worse than what is now, only the future will proof me wrong

I can't now develop borderline or bipolar disorder even when mentally healthy I couldn't develop a friend group or community this isn't gonna make it easier

SHE'S NOT EVEN GOING TO RAISE IT HERSELF???

Deeply deeply sick society and culture

This has already been the repeating predictable cycle of mainstream/subculture for a hundred years

People long for connections with other people that aren't sporadic or contingent or volatile or shallow. People need so much more support and social contacts than they get and they need so much more time to support and nourish these contacts, but they get neither of them, capitalism as always is burning the candle from both ends, creating ever more unstable life's and ever more pressure on people, while at the same time taking away any and all ways people would have to deal with them, through social connections and communities. Everyone you know is tired and needs somebody, but everyone you know is also too tired to be that somebody.

ChatGPT is never too busy to answer, ChatGPT never wants to talk about their own feelings, ChatGPT is never going to disagree with you, ChatGPT is never going to go away, ChatGPT doesn't have any other friends, ChatGPT is never going through it themselves, ChatGPT is never tired, ChatGPT is always there for you.

edit: people's brains have also been rewired to always expect complete instantaneous responses: we can get almost all entertainment there is within seconds, food delivered within half an hour, Amazon prime delivery the next morning and so on and so on. Writing to a friend and having to wait for them to reply for a day seems so archaic in comparison, especially when all these other much more immediate experiences all come through the same device using the same basic gestures and actions.

You interact with it the same way you do most human interaction nowadays, through text chat. And unlike human interaction it's completely immediate, it has vast amounts of knowledge compared to almost any human and it never tires of interacting with you. It's always there for you, unlike actual human beings, it "gets to know you" better than most human beings, you can tell it things you wouldn't tell human beings.

AI will never leave you.

I really don't think there's much of a surprise why people are so attracted to these things. As with so many of capitalist inventions, nobody would find a need for these things if we didn't live in a world in which the chasm between human being gets wider and deeper every day and the weight placed upon them gets heavier and heavier at the same time. The difference between interacting without a real human friend that lives on the other side of the country through text and interacting with ChatGPT might bé neglegible for a lot of people.

they need to remind you again and again and again that they've won and we've lost

Some of these days you could convince me I'm already living this

Roommates complaining about the way the kitchen looks: a) it doesn't even look particularly bad b) of course it doesn't look sparkling clean, is use it every day, unlike you people who cook once every two weeks, if I only cooked once every two weeks it wouldn't be a problem keeping it sparkling clean, but I cook every single day, multiple times a day, you wouldn't keep it sparkling clean if you cooked more often either

Kinda hate these guys

could've just as easily been an mpreg seahorse situation

Don't threaten me with a good time