Echo chamber

i absolutely HATE the 'personalization' flood. I will get on a kick about subject Y, and I watch 3 videos then walk away. Good job, the psycho YT bots think it's my entire life now and I'll get NOTHING but subject Y for like 2 weeks after. It makes me hate Subject Y so I desperately seek Subject X and then.... it all happens again and now all I see is X and Y only. All my old interests are just gone now. This is also why TikTok works. Their algo, instead, is all about SURPRISING you and it's all low risk content so that's fine. I love a good 1:23:50 video essay, it's my MAIN passion to watch... but I can only watch like one of those every other day or so. So YT's algo saying everything should be one of those is really shooting itself in the foot, I think.

i feel like the world is in shamble. like i keep seeing negative stuff on the internet, and about how AI is taking over Real Art (and how i wont get a job in the future because i am an artist). Loneliness. etc... it a sad world.

This guy is on point.

thankyou. helped me with my paper! 🌻

This whole book felt like a bad trip

have you ever heard of a demonic "miracle" it's probably a coincidence because this was a majorly promoted book, but there is also things in the bible about signs and wonders that are demonic and not holy. in any way event, this book ishmael is not a good , you're a white man and the book actually says that white man especially are terrible. Do you have problems with hating yourself? Well, that might be another demonic thing that you got from this book.

Was Jack a cuckold in one chapter? If so how did it evolve.

KZbin is boring, full of boring entertainment like sitting on a toilet waiting for my other blow hole to exhale.

This morning I woke up with similar thoughts. I was wondering how easy it used to be to find something on the internet. Today, when I search for any information on Google, I have to wade through ads and very popular sites from which nothing useful comes out. There are practically no websites created or edited by ordinary people. The articles I come across are clickbaity - 5-10% substantive content, and the rest is ads and repetitive nonsense. Shorts, tweets, silly comments, and never ending scrolling in search of something intresting. It's like diving into the middle of a lake, searching for a lost coin at the bottom. I agree with you, the internet we remember from our childhood was better.

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The algorithm will bury this video

Battle of the a.i. sounds like now with all these different a.i. apps.

the internet ,and like you were mentioning, media in general has become unbearably stale. I see the internet now as a resource for education but I have lost my reliance on it for entertainment. I don't know how good or bad it is that there isn't anything to really spend money on except for real life experiences. There is a always need for variety though but what can be done?

Everything you said is completely right. The more social media grows the worse society becomes. The glory days of the net are gone. Golden era of the net was 2000 - 2012. Peace bro. From the UK.

6:43 I read this last month for the first time but didn’t finish, I also found it too slow and confusing. I felt kind of guilty for giving up on this classic, but this video made me feel ok about that.

One of mybfavorite books, but heartbreaking. There are 8 billion people we will need to convince. And those who go along with it will take advantage if the ones with less. This world cannot improve without a mass extinction.

I thought it was very cool apart from all the exposition dumping with religion. Although quite a reach (imo), it was a cool idea, but man does the book beat a dead horse.

I’m being nice with my last comment , this book sucked in my opinion.

I wasn’t impressed by this book, but maybe if I was in my younger teen years it would have had a more profound impact on me. It was all topics I already contemplated upon, didnt feel enlightened or have an epiphany

you actually did a 9 minute vid about this book without mentioning raven. really impressive work man, keep it up.

Hit all the major points I think. The book can be confusing as to “Why are the characters at this place?” and “Why are they trying to do this?”. You did a good job laying it all out while also giving your POV of how it compares to other Sci-if books that came out afterwards. If you can get through the slow build up of Count Zero, I think you are rewarded with a good tie into Neuromancer, with a cameo and mentioning of events that happened in this book. I also like how Count Zero touches on how humans start to worship these AIs like they are gods now. But that I guess is better left to a different video.

The book was boring. More focused on describing that world when nothing interesting happens

I've been feeling like this recently. Same drama, same politics, same videos, same craziness in the world.

William Gibson. Considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, it is the only novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award.[1] It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. (Blade runner was released as this was being written!)

Dude ... 1:39 the Ruby Rose Psy-Op just happened too. It's only the beginning man.

You said you enjoy other sci-fi books more than this one; Can you share your favorite(s)?

Its so weird that I'd find this video now. I was just complaining earlier about bot threads. Personally, I'm seeing a lot of bots make an original post about how psilocybin saved their lives from addiction and the bots in the comments direct people to some scammer on insta. Ive seen this done several times with a bot that spams each comment on a video but this is the first I've ever seen the original post seem like its actually typed by a human. I watch a lot of videos on drug addiction so this brand of bot is probably different from the brand of bot in other comment threads. AI is really starting to advance. And Google is not your friend, the search function of Google has declined remarkably in just the past year alone. Searching for information on certain drugs results in the wikipedia article and a dozen rehab facilities. Searching anything else results in listicles from the usual offenders, buzzfeed, medium, whatever generic clickbait site that happens to have deep corporate pockets. Good luck on your traffic, hope you get it worked out.

VALIS was a tough read. I never finished it. Otherwise, PKD is my favorite author and I have read most of his books. Also, I thought Man in the High Castle was highly overrated and there were many other PKD books much more deserving of awards. It made me think that the reason why it won a Hugo award was because of it's certain ethnic favoritism and victimization.

Dude I feel the exact same way and I HOPE that it’s not just a fact of life that everything becomes dull but it may be so.

This book deserves so much more than a summary, which can never do it justice. There is a growing pantheon of literature on technology and it's seemingly inevitable trans-human effects. Snow Crash is definitely one of the better ones and deserves to be considered on the same level as Ghost In the Shell. GITS 2045 in particular. In 2045, the concept of an evolved consciousness as a result of an AI merging or infecting a brain is not far removed from the idea of code altering the brain in Snow Crash. So as summaries go, this is a summary. But the meat of what this book is about is in really understanding the referenced concepts and ideas. And there are many of them!!!! * Enki not being just some dude and the analogy provided by him and nam-shub * The link between language and development in small children giving teeth to the term nuero-linguistic. * The abstraction of FTP or SFTP by avatars in virtual envrionments * The referenced "ring of 17" in helping something pass the blood brain barrier * and on and on and on.... Snow Crash is a master work and in time will be considered my more as such.

Summary ends and analysis begins at 7:00

I learned how to type on a portable almost identical to that one!!

Good info, but stop saying "like" so dang much. It's irritating. You said like 189 times in this short video. I'm not a bot either haha. Good luck.

I used to picture Edward Norton as Case. If they would have made a film back in the day I think he would’ve been great

Great tip. Get outside. Talk to people. People are spending their time getting angry at opposite opinioned comments online. Talking face to face with that same person and having an educated debate can really change your perspective on things. It may not change your opinion, but it will flesh out details and real life experiences the other person has. Thus, fully understanding all sides of a debate.

Do you feel confused? What do you do to get past the confusion? What steps do you take?

Shallow

News flash, life in general is pretty boring, everything is indeed a copy with slightly different details in it, no matter what you do. And where is it going to? In the end, no matter what we create, discover or find out, everything will become boring. The big question is, do you find it worth living for, because somewhere, sometime, all the "fun" you expierenced, will be nothing more than a waste of time, because there can't be an end goal, that would mean the end of existing, so as a result to that, you get stuck in a boring loop.

Yeah lol

vid chat tomorrow? :)

You're kind of explaining what the progression of what it means to be human. Every scientist built on the learning from the last scientist. Little by little we progressed society to what it is today. Nothing is really new, just minor improvements from something old. For better or worse. And FYI, KZbin recommend me this video probably because I commented on one of your other ones recently. Once in a while I'll get random recommendations of things I would never watch but somehow must be related to videos I watch and what other people who watch that also watch.

Do you think the internet is boring? I'm having trouble finding things worth watching online these days.

Ironically, media just reported that the Canadian government is looking into universal basic income deeper. Personally, based on my experiences dealing with the social class that would be eligible for universal income, I think its a bad idea. Commenting in the decline of developed nations, is it simply a perception of decline since we emerged out of the pandemic (lots of introspection happing during the pandemic) or have we been on the decline for a decade or more? I think we've reached a peak years ago, its just lagging economic measures have brought them to light recently. But what does that mean for the average person? Does this decline correlate with people's decline in happiness? Probably. After all, money does make the world go round.

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Do you think we are living in decline? Do you think life is going to improve for the average person?

IT'S TUNED! NOT TURNED!

Do you feel confused about what is actually true these days? It used to be easier to know the truth, just watch the news, but now we have to decide.

Solomon Asch line study

*The Narcissist* vs the Jacques on Kotsy’s site :)