"thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"
"why? because we became dependent on them? because they rebelled?"
"no, because the human mind is really annoying to model. do yourself a favor and make your machines in the likeness of some other kind of mind. do you really want a laptop you can traumatize?"
capitalists are all "if we didn't kill people who don't work, nobody would work!"
and meanwhile everyone who's financially stable but can't work due to covid is literally Fucking Losing It and forgetting what day it is or what the sun looks like, because it turns out the human brain kinda Needs the stimulation of completing meaningful tasks and will always rather do them than not in the long term
@prehensile
I boosted this earlier but, relevant...
"no, computers werent a mistake
no, the internet wasnt a mistake
the mistake was letting capitalism have control of these things"
Source: @norikawa, https://efdn.club/@norikawa/104599067940860244
thinking about things