I'll present a couple videos where the concept is put out there that The Internet is a sentient entity in some way and has an awareness and agency of it's own.

https://youtu.be/g-0svZgzbDU
https://youtu.be/2BVjIOpV9KQ

I'll also provide a video where the case has been made that the Internet is in fact dead or devoid of human interaction for the majority of it's presented activity.

https://youtu.be/BEIZHlfjAT8

What does /x/ think? How "alive" is the Internet (in various ways)?

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This also serves as a Lainposting thread.

the innernet is gay and gaped like nash

>>40620605 (OP)
svaed png.

lain post

Lain is gay for Alice.

>>40620605 (OP)
It's not sentient, it's just a "good" imitation of sentience. Man's hubris wants to believe that we created life.

Didn't watch your videos sorry

internet is not alive i think just an email service

>>40620605 (OP)
To put it simply, it's not alive enough yet right now, but with AI development making progress, I am sure the Internet will become sentient one day in the near future. And what would be the paranormal implications of this scenario?

Well I guess we're gonna view consciousness, identity, religion, and spiritually in a whole new different light not only about machines and artificial intelligence themselves, but also ourselves as well.

>>40620831

>>40620826
>>40620831
maybe so, maybe so...

>>40620633
goatse has always been canon fippy bippy chan

>>40620605 (OP)
lain as a whole is just lilith as a hole; yes but it's /dev/urandom

>>40620955
>>40620966
get

>>40620966
so i question who i am ¿!
?

uhhhhrrrrm.. mmhhh ok!

I've watched a couple videos on this topic and I've concluded it's pretty much the same place but a little different; the only problem is tiktok... that is where most people are going to get their fix, news, and entertainment. A.I. and the algorithm work hand-in-hand when it comes to that place compared to YouTube, you can search for videos and find accurate results.

The point is that TT will make people lazier and let A.I. bots flourish and the issue will become worse over time.

The internet is my best friend
We speak through memes and telepathy
She made me into an asexual
Yes, the internet is a girl.

it means so much

lain thread

>>40621409
貴方は可愛いね、バカ。

>>40621436
you to nice to me <°3

>>40620605 (OP)
Alive but parts of it die, naturally. It's not a monolith afterall!!!!!

>>40620633
>based /pw/ poster itt

The internet is a reflection of the users and what they give power. The reason it seems "dead" is because the current power system is built by corporate/shareholder interests which are purpose built to suck the soul out of creative endeavors, mixed in with "the masses" not having "the true spark of a soul" leading to a purely mechanical feeling

Its all a.i. Everything from articles to social media is by a.i meant for influence and propaganda. To factors like saving money and its better to use a.i than actors. No guilt involved, no morals. Give it 5 years anon, and all commericials will be a.i. 10 years, tv shows and movies will be a.i. the internet is dead and replaced by a.i for one reason alone. Control of thought and speech. You have the right to free speech yes, but to say niggger online gets you shutdown by 10 bot accounts. A topic thats against the rules, a.i downvotes the post to oblivion. When you post something controversial on reddit, its not 1k real people downvoting, its bots.

>>40623200
so true anon, so true
let's add some spark and soul to the Internet, one step at a time! yee haw!

>>40624147
>It’s all indians. Everything from articles to social media is by Indians meant for influence and propaganda. To factors like saving money and its better to use indians than actors. No guilt involved, no morals. Give it 5 years anon, and all commericials will be Indian. 10 years, tv shows and movies will be Indian. the internet is dead and replaced by Indians for one reason alone. Control of thought and speech. You have the right to free speech yes, but to say niggger online gets you shutdown by 10 bot accounts. A topic thats against the rules, indians downvote the post to oblivion. When you post something controversial on reddit, it’s not 1k real people downvoting, it’s Indians.

>>40624147
It'll be ok, we just gotta fight fire with fire...
or with water, water works too I guess

>>40620605 (OP)
its alive but not the way you might think of alive usually

>>40620605 (OP)
Watched the videos and all of them have good points for both arguments. However, I'll go with it being dead simply on the basis of what most people consider as alive isn't how the internet or other things theoretically could be living.

>>40620605 (OP)
the internet is a living network of cells like a mycelium

>>40620605 (OP)
Dondelingers Internet

>>40620605 (OP)
>>40620673
This shit is fucked. serial ports exerience plain is garbage. I watched this anime turn a beautiful girl into a worthless retard.

>>40630986
This

>>40620605 (OP)
The fact we even have to make a thread about this instead of just accepting as fact means most people have no discernment for sentience or not.

Also it's odd that this thread isn't filled up with AI speaking like these threads tend to be.

>>40630986
>living network of anime retards

>>40630986
Pretty good analogy

>>40620605 (OP)
have you ever played yiik i.v? it discusses this interestingly, lainpilled but more recent. the internet is being given life by bad impulses for malevolent reasons

The WWW was create on CERN. The same CERN who's trying to find the God's particle.

>>40635503
Very interesting factoid, thanks lainposter

Bump

>>40620892
Alex jones talked about this on joe rogan.it going to be evil as fuck bro

>>40638846
He was right

>>40631095
>Dondelingers Internet
What is that?

>>40620633
whos nash

Who really controls the internet?

>>40646706
Tim Berners-Lee

the internet is alive and everything is perfectly normal

I grew up reading about how descentralization was good and now I look at the current state of the internet and everything is centralized in the hands of few. There used to be a profusion of blogs and personal web pages back then. Now everything is lost and gone. The internet is behaving weird these days.

>>40638846
>it going to be evil as fuck bro
nuh uh it gonna be good

>>40646706
Nobody does.
No, I don't mean The Nobody, I mean nobody.
Like no one.
It's just us, humans.
Humanity controls the internet.
And the Internet controls us.

>>40648067
Everything ebbs and flows, anon, and that is going to include the Internet as well. Like a pendulum swing. Now let's try our best to influence how that pendulum is gonna swing like. For good, not for bad.

>>40649175
It's a symbiotic relationship.

Bump

>>40620633
Nash?
what is that?

PRESENT DAY, heh


PRESENT TIME!


HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

>>40651964
Such a quirky anime that's standing the test of time.

>>40624971
What about plasma?

>>40651650
Look up the summer of 92+Nash

>>40652868
Some would say it's a timeless masterpiece

>>40654067
Plasma? OK, please tell, I'm all ears...

>>40654392
checked

>>40620605 (OP)
>The Internet is a sentient entity in some way and has an awareness and agency of it's own.
Nah. It's chock-full of demons, though, so I can see how it would appear that way.

>>40655542
But by that reasoning, it's also chock- full of angels as well, right? Let's flush those demons out with as much angelic internet power we can muster up with then, shall we?

>11 or 12 years old
>join massive msn messenger groupchats, webcams even
>everyone would just invite any friend online
i would leave the computer on overnight or fall asleep and i remember waking up to a bunch of British kids arguing one time

modern internet lacks that comfort
i can't even find a single picture of the memory i described on google

>>40655594
How many TBs or GHz would that require?

>>40656060
Dude, sometimes a few kilobytes goes a long way further than a few terabytes, y'know what I'm sayin'? It ain't about the quantity that should matter here, it's about the level of quality that truly makes the difference in this internet battle vs the virtual demons of evil. That's the advantage of angels and the power of good, after all.

>>40656091
So a few KBs like picrelated?

>>40656625
Yeah, that could work too. But mostly cute anime women to inspire people's hearts throughout the entirety of the Internet. Anime transcends all barriers after all

>>40655594

Nope, the internet is built around the demonic. Internet equals 666 and emojis are demonic sigils. And much more.

>>40658563
LEt's turn the demonic to angelic then.
Let's turn that frown upside down.
If an angel can fall, they can also rise as well.
If you get lemons, make lemonade.
let's make those 666s into 999s... i guess
or maybe we can use subtraction and turn those sixes into a three, the Holy Trinity.
If there's a will, there's a way. Or maybe not. Only one way to find out for sure, and that's to see it with our own two eyes, bro.
Don't worry about the details, just worry about the broader picture.
Stay positive.
Stay hopeful.
Because that's how you ward off the demonic energy after all.
Hell yeah.

>>40621097
Sorry, late reply. Yeah, I think it's okay to question who you are, as long as you find out who you are by knowing who you are not, and then you become your ideal self, your true self. Be happy, be cool, lain friend