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Unfortunately here I am, life moves on, now I'm just wasting away on HN
The blog post is not just beige— it's filled with em dashes, and here's why that matters.
Congratulations, person who wrote the prompt that caused a machine to generate this article, you have truly achieved some sort of perfect something.
> People say they're afraid of death, but often what they really mean is dying as the wrong person. Nope, pretty sure it's almost always a mix of a) not knowing what (if anything) is after, b) the way one achieves the state of "being dead", c) high possibility of own consciousness ceasing to exist and d) leaving someone behind. I don't really care if I'm meant to become the next Luke Skywalker or the pope, I would li…
Humanity will someday solve death: make everything lifeless by default. No more death.
Humanity will someday solve death: make everything lifeless by default. No more death.
We are a species driven by memetic thoughts that builds a reality through consensus. Having shared goals helps us in that regard.
No one at GloboCorp asks themselves if they will live the rest of their lives as Excel monkeys, because we answer that question for them every day. The answer is Yes, you will fill out the little cells, and then we will kill you. We provide effective solutions to the problem of being. We transform existential dread into acceptance and peace and high performance.
The blog post is not just beige— it's filled with em dashes, and here's why that matters.
The blog post does the “It’s not X, it’s Y” pattern a few times. It’s hard not to assume the post is just produced by an LLM. It’s frustrating not knowing whether I’m reading the musings of a real person, or the output of an LLM.
But yes, this was almost certainly LLM. In real humans, the quality of thought has a stronger correlation with the quality of writing.
Humanity will someday solve death: make everything lifeless by default. No more death.
Or, alternatively, we realize that the best use of our time and the best organizing drive is something that extends beyond us into the far future. A great example would be adopting the principle that sapience and sentience should survive the heat death of the universe. We are a species driven by memetic thoughts that builds a reality through consensus. Having shared goals helps us in that regard.
> People say they're afraid of death, but often what they really mean is dying as the wrong person. Nope, pretty sure it's almost always a mix of a) not knowing what (if anything) is after, b) the way one achieves the state of "being dead", c) high possibility of own consciousness ceasing to exist and d) leaving someone behind. I don't really care if I'm meant to become the next Luke Skywalker or the pope, I would li…
I think it depends on the person. I can't say I've worried about any of this since I was a teenager except d. Angst over how I live my life definitely ranks much higher than stressing about nonsensical concerns.
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Or, alternatively, we realize that the best use of our time and the best organizing drive is something that extends beyond us into the far future. A great example would be adopting the principle that sapience and sentience should survive the heat death of the universe. We are a species driven by memetic thoughts that builds a reality through consensus. Having shared goals helps us in that regard.
You cannot survive heat death of the universe, if you did then the universe hasn’t really died.