Thread 106181260

do people even look stuff up anymore? is anyone actually interested in anything or learning anything or doing anything?

what the fuck has happened??!?!?!?!!!

>>106181260 (OP)
@grok explain the OP

>>106181260 (OP)
Yes but less so through google. I personally look at youtube installation videos since a lot of docs are outdated or badly written. Also some too retarded to tell you what their package is called in your repository.

>>106181281
this shit is just so unreal it's literally WALL-E shit
shit straight out of a children's movie for fuck sake

>>106181260 (OP)
Focusing on productivity results in poor social development.

>>106181303
i would say the stereotypical basement nerd who likes vidya and books and stuff is more well adjusted than the typical dopamine network fried doomscroller ragebait algomedia normie.

>>106181361
>is more well adjusted
For his peers.

If you manage to live in your own bubble for the rest of your life, then yes, you can live your life (constantly consuming dopamine, just like normies, but playing video games/coding/watching anime instead of having sex).

If after 20, 30, 40 years you try to leave your room and go socialize, you will fail miserably. That lost time cannot be recovered, even if you identify what you are missing, you will not be able to absorb it in time. And maybe you'll never be able to identify what you're missing, you'll get into trouble before you're able to understand.

Of course, this is a technical observation of the whole social phenomenon. In practice, what happens is that the number of computer users has simply fallen dramatically, and mobile does not encourage development, only app consumption.

>>106181534
You sound like a very boring person you might even be a fucking NSA spook talking to me from behind le NSA whatever fucking chat-gpt 4chan mirror whatever

le internet being shut down le lmao whatever

>>106181260 (OP)
Why would I live is a psyop and useless anyway

>>106181260 (OP)
>is anyone actually interested in anything or learning anything or doing anything?
I've noticed this too, and its been a gradually increasing trend since long before any of us were born.
The downfall of radioshack tells you all you need to know about current societal trends.

>>106181534
ok you have some point but idk theres rigidity in your viewpoints esp at start but yea im kihnda on same page with u toward the end

>>106181260 (OP)
Summarize this for me copilot.

>>106181260 (OP)
I buy more books than ever before.

>>106181361
>>106181303
I don't know how, but somehow both of these statements are true

>>106181260 (OP)
I am. I still like leetcoding.

>>106181260 (OP)
The world is now too big and lack of agency is normalized. The average person doesn’t know anything about government, starting a business, the values of community, the true benefits of owning over renting, etc. There’s no room for pursuit of knowledge when even that is misleading, as everyone’s told you go to college for that but I’ve met only 2 people over 4 years that potentially actually studied for its own sake or to do something with it, everyone else is just there for a certificate, or to do what’s expected, or to feel smart, or to play the grading game. Even those who are up for it are in a world where most natural revolutionary discoveries have been plotted out. I currently room with a Chinese post-PhD researcher who’s staying in America to work for the local college, he studies how to get AI to better recognize notable objects, landmarks, and terrain from satellite images of Earth. It’s been a year and he’s never had great news on how it’s going, despite him doing nothing but that and Overwatch every single day (we live in the middle of nowhere). Learning things is best relegated to party tricks at this point, it’s not even worth it for artistic expression anymore if you can get your fix from a game, video, or social media.

>>106186712
This is what sucks about knowledge compared to physical things. Imagine if you never had to make a chair because someone else made a chair.

>>106187558
I've never had to make a chair, because someone else made a chair...

>>106181260 (OP)
I find myself saying that too more and more nowadays. But again to whom, unambitious and demoralized people?
>>106186712
And here's your example of said people.