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>That is a very good and insightful article. Thank you! > The only issue with the article is sometimes it's too optimistic, e.g. The reply below is criticizi

>That is a very good and insightful article. Thank you! > The only issue with the article is sometimes it's too optimistic, e.g. The reply below is criticizing for being too pessimistic, lol :-) I agree, it might be only a transient state. We really can't comprehend how we would deal with such existence if at all. Would we manage to keep our sanity? Nonetheless, I don't claim to have the right answers, just questions and perspectives that I hope inspire deeper thought about the journey we are travelling and hopefully deeper reflection as to whether it is the journey we want to be on. What I do find interesting, are those that read it and still don't perceive it at all. Their response is "That is exactly what I want." I suppose that is the case as was in an excellent allegory for this "A Nice Place to Visit" Twilight Zone episode. It plays out this scenario very nicely.

tivert 3y ago
> What I do find interesting, are those that read it and still don't perceive it at all. Their response is "That is exactly what I want." I think there's a basically (new movement) religious desire to see a lot of these technologies come to fruition, either radically fundamentalist or lazier and less informed, that interferes with the application of the implications. They believe in the idol of technology, as told in the good news of sci-fi, and avert their eyes from the glaring cracks, blemishes, and lifelessness of it. I sense a lot of things in those types that I can't fully articulate, but some of the things they say are just mind-boggling, and gesture at a broken and unhinged aspect of software engineering culture.
- 13years 3y ago
  Yes, I agree that is some component of it as I have felt the same vibe from some.