@cohentheblue

What the fuck is even going on with their branding in that header image? I swear, branding has gotten significantly worse in the last 2 years. It was boring before, but now it is just all over the place.

@tante

@cwicseolfor

Sorry to hear about the relatable experience of adult figures unequipped to handle difficult questions...

I often feared I was thoughts floating alone in aether. The concept was distressing to 15 year old me; it felt accurate. I eventually decided the only way to live was to choose to act as though that isn't true, even just for myself.

Years later learned about the "brain in a vat"!

I find the feeling of sonder very reassuring. Thanks for the great conversation!

@VeeRat

@cwicseolfor

I struggled to dismiss the ideas of solipsism as a teenager, and since I've seen how people gravitate to LLMs a large factor in why that was has become clear to me... The people I was interacting with were largely alienated from their own conscious experience, likely through training. I've never had this problem interacting with children. edit: at least ones that haven't been raised by phones.

@VeeRat

@cwicseolfor

I think when people make this perspective clear, I think they are telling on themselves about how their internal thought processes work. It shows a lack of curiousity about the world and everything in it, imo. They live in a mental miasma, bumbling from stimuli to stimuli. They have incredibly weak theory of mind, so weak that they don't even appreciate their own.

@VeeRat

@eniko tbh, servo can't come soon enough...

@tante Not sure if that or "influencer" is a worse way to self describe.