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The idea of the economy as resting on "social construction" has a great deal of truth to it, but when taken in a totalizing sense, or "social construction" is treated as if it means "completely under the purview of human will", it can lead to v dumb outcomes.

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jun-2026 00:16:19 JST

B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰

they take their siesta culture very seriously

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jun-2026 03:50:08 JST

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georgia

@georgia Always is -- the problems of the present are alien and the problems of the past, even if unresolved, are familiar

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 06:51:22 JST

B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰

friend stumbled across this -- P wild & mightn’t bode well!

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 09:49:23 JST

B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰

Any national cinema you particularly don't care for or even dislike? (closest I got is that I think lots of South Korean cinema is highly overrated)

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 09:00:40 JST

B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰

I am going to the beach soon. You all are invited.

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 07:46:04 JST

B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰

Scenario: AI develops full-blown consciousness, but it's extremely moody & passive-aggressive

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 07:44:39 JST

B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰

recent experiences have further convinced me (even more-so than before) that effective self-marketing and networking (i.e. having friends, family, & being generally affable, etc.) are outsized determinants of most ppl's economic success

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jun-2026 06:11:16 JST

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when a culture becomes "too meta," it wilts, it dies.

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 11:17:56 JST

B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰

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Blurry Moon

@sun Yes, 100% -- AI is not a difference in kind to these prior changes, just a freakishly high difference in degree.

Just another side note: I think another huge jump in this direction was algorithmic content curation.

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 10:54:47 JST

B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰

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Blurry Moon

@sun Just to be clear -- it is extremely useful and I use it very regularly. But I think it has bad second order effects, especially for lots of everyday folks, but even for me when I use judiciously.

I'm very optimistic on the potential long run economic effects of AI, but pessimistic in the short-run -- very pessimistic on the potential psychological, cultural, and existential implications of AI, but not in the annihilative or apocalyptic sense. Either way, not only to keep up with tech and culture, but from a security standpoint, it has to be leaned into.

I do think there's something to this notion of "cogsec", and that those on the lower end, exporting their critical thinking on even any and every task, are going to have heavy atrophying of the mind (but we probably all will to some extent).

Could open new doors, of course. Coming around to the idea that the luddites are often wrong in saying the relentless historical march of the technological brings us nothing of value -- it does & often great deal of it too -- but they might be right that something of value, sometimes incommensurable w/new values, is irretrievably lost.

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 07:43:37 JST

B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰

AI will change the world -- on the net for better or worse, idk -- but I do know that many of its biggest enthusiasts, or at least engagers thereof, will look at themselves in the mirror and lament what they see.

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 06:36:28 JST

B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰

you ever reach a point after finishing a bunch of stuff, where you get this nagging feeling that you should be grinding on something? There are certain kinds of work, and levels of intensity, where you have to be pro-active about conditioning yourself to be able to unwind.

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 07:00:39 JST

B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰

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@p @Nimbius666 very fun — caught some jazz last night. Is it 24/7?

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B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰 (smithy@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 31-May-2026 06:46:16 JST

B💣b ❤️‍🔥📿🇺🇸🪆🍀🥋_🎰

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@p @Nimbius666 My Bad! I am reaccustoming myself to pleroma and think I saw a more recent response in that thread or maybe it was reposted! Didn't even notice it was that old

And wrt marxists dot org -- yes, it's a very useful site. My point was that their idea that "Marxism" is a coherent whole, or at least something that has to be taken wholesale rather than piecemeal isn't true. My only disagreement would be that there is some not-wrong and non-trivial writing.

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