Name a technology that has been more damaging to the human psyche.
>>108821697The internet in general. It should have stayed just a minimal dogshit chatroom and a thing to send mail, nothing more.
>>108821723I can tell you are under 21 from this
>>108821697Large Language Models
>>108821728I can tell that you're genuinely stupid from this.Stop larping, go watch your reels or something.
>>108821697Algorithm-driven feeds. Social media was a lot less harmful when it was just updates from your friends and family and the handful of fan pages you followed.
>>108821878>outrageously upset over the mention of agePoint proven. Thanks.
>>108821857"You're holding it wrong"
>>108821900I recently had a discussion with some friends over this exact thing. The moment social media lost it's "social" aspect and introduced stuff from accounts you don't even know to ease you into eating up the ads that would be coming your way was the moment we should've stopped. Nowadays I don't even see updates from my friends on IG anymore because the algo deems it more important to show me gothgirl thirst traps (the algo is correct in this case).
>>108821697Smartphones
>>108821697That's easy.
>>108821697
>>108821697The automobile
>>108821697ability to see beautiful naked ladies with a single click of a button
>>108822121THIS
>>108821697the real tragedy is, that tve supposed alternatives like the fediverse/mastodon/nostr etc. have copied these harmful social media mechanisms. even today's forums have implemented this shit. once i gave this weird forum a try called sheepish patio. i asked the users, if it wouldn't be better if there wouldn't be these social media mechanisms. but they liked it.
>>108822139It's weird how you didn't mention the actual alternative, which is going outside and talking to people and having actual social interactions
>>108822506where and to whom, anon? Malls are dead, arcades don't exist anymore. Just talk to randos on the bus? How is this supposed to work? Or do I still have to find people online to talk to IRL?
>>108821697The YouTube likes and dislikes are different from Reddit's upvotes. The former is for creator feedback (which is necessary if you care about growing an audience) and the latter is for publicity.
>>108822506>Humans are social creatures dude, you need to go outside>To where>Anywhere m'dude>And talk to whom>Anyone dude, you'll totally wing it and not look like a desperate retard who pissed away gas to talk to someone other than the seniors you normally live around in your desolate bumfuck areaIt also doesn't actually address the problem at hand, you're just telling them that they don't exist and you're "better off" going outside and talking to fucking randos and expecting it to magically bloom.
>>10882191199% of accusations of youngsterism on this website are made by self-hating youngsters.
>>108821697>Name a technology that has been more damaging to the human psyche.Writing.
>>108822605Even in the 70s-90s I doubt people went to malls and hung out with total strangers desuI think most interaction has always been with people you're forced to spend time with because of school/work/church/family etc. even if you hate those people
>>108822831Let's go all the way: language.
>>108822753>Still upsetGo back to class, nerd.
>>108822943>languageWithout language, there is no abstract thinking.Written language, on the other hand, completely dulled our ability to speak eloquently, like the ancients did."In fact, it will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so." - https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-on-the-forgetfulness-that-comes-with-writing
>>108823005>Without language, there is no abstract thinking.Only LLMs and jews believer this retarded nonsense.
>>108823012>Only LLMs and jews believer this retarded nonsense.If you don't have an inner monologue, you're an NPC.Sorry, Karen, I don't make the rules.
>>108823053>retarded token guesser hallucinates incongruent replyMeanwhile my statement stands undisputed.
>>108822753>>108821911
>>108823058>Meanwhile my statement
>>108821911Actual low IQ behaviour, this place is lost beyond repair.
>>108823089I accept your concession. You will always be a brown subhuman.
>>108823012>Only LLMs and jews believer this retarded nonsense.this. "people" who say that shit can't form abstract concepts on their own and rely purely on verbal training data
>>108823089Older generations used to get hella bullied by teachers for being left-handed. I think it was because they used slower drying inks and softer graphite back then, so lefties would have to take extra care not to smear what they just wrote.
>>108821989I wonder how long it took from the first pressed written word to the first pressed porn
>>108823101>>108821911
>>108822831this but unironicallyliterate people never learn anything except in which resource to look to remember something
>>108823124The term for that is aphantasia
>>108823794that's for visual thinkingthere are more abstract forms of thinking that precede both language and visuals
>>108823828People still model those abstractions in their heads as either visual objects or language.
>>108823876Nobody is disputing that
