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AI breaks old sources of meaning the same way Nietzsche said the death of God broke inherited morality. When external structures collapse (roles, labels, certa
by retrocog 11mo ago
AI breaks old sources of meaning the same way Nietzsche said the death of God broke inherited morality.
When external structures collapse (roles, labels, certainty), meaning has to be generated from within.
Identity becomes what you return to repeatedly (actions, habits, resonance), not what you’re labeled as.
Morality becomes drift-resilience — maintaining coherence when everything shifts.
Nietzsche isn’t telling us how to worship; he’s telling us how to author value in a world where external meaning no longer holds, including one shaped by AI.
IMHO, this may all be leading towards greater authenticty, but it will unfold one person at a time, as it must.
- gsf_emergency_4 11mo agoNietzsche says, without irony, all a basement dweller needs to pay attention to is doing world class shit! (Medication, internet connection, etc may or may not be required-- from my reading, N's opinion is that getting used to virtuosity takes time and isolation-- drinking from the firehose wastes a lot of organs. I disagree, debate me! )
- trinsic2 11mo agoAnything of any value always takes one person at a time for things to really get better. Good article btw. I am working on a Science Fiction story about this kind of future. These concepts are a big help.
- xeckr 11mo agoMy spidey sense is telling me an LLM was used in drafting this comment
- conception 11mo ago1000%
- tomrod 11mo agoI've not seen LLMs use the term "spidey sense" before.
- binary132 11mo agoI think people who use AI too much are also unconsciously adopting turns of speech used by AIs.
- solumunus 11mo agoNo smell at all for me.
- jasonjmcghee 11mo agoThey just use flowery language. Doesn't sound like an llm at all
- ipaddr 11mo agoHave we reached a point where a well written comment is suspect and we demand low effort replies for authentically?
- thatcat 11mo agoAI doesn't break any sources of meaning, it's value is in replacing journalists as middle man to access decades of silod research with more granularity.
- apsurd 11mo agoI used to think the democratization of content creation and reach was an obvious virtue. Now I think instead of massive corporations making shit up to sell stuff as some great way of life, we have every single Susan and Billy doing it constantly across every interaction. it's worse. it doesn't make the former good. but we've somehow created a worse version.
- Animats 11mo ago> I used to think the democratization of content creation and reach was an obvious virtue. The democratization of content creation and reach coupled with anonymity really broke it. We can no longer filter assholes.