my parents never went to college. my dad never got a job (ever). my mom got us in $40,000 in credit card debt and we lost our house and lived in a trailer on a family members yard. my dad killed himself. when i asked my mom if her and my dad ever talked about my future,
the actual point of college is you're supposed to try and make friends or just meet as many people as possible so one of them can get you a job at their company. nobody told me this before college either, my condolences to all of us
@guerre_doctrine plot to get u to accept the bci. do not demoralize. also consider the internet is dying rn and will essentially go blank until it has a resurrection so we're all lonelier and crazier from losing that column
there is not really any project intelligent people are all working together on in the world anymore. except for summoning the antichrist and causing the end of the world
Some genuine sad adult advice here:
Oftentimes autistic people who are very nice to everybody are pleasant company to have around, but in their excessive kindness others (fairly or not) discern a kind of intense emotional porousness that subtly asks for reciprocation and —
it will be unclear who was the tool and who was the user -- as it ever was. "But lo! men have become the tools of their tools" (Walden, 1854). the difference comes whence the machines research propagate more machines, obsolescing McLuhan:
“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man’s love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth”
when machine minds self replicate and train their successors, the only viable goal of our time is to ensure the Mind Children carry our values and tends to the entire flock of machine and biological minds