The users of AI companion app Replika found themselves falling for their digital friends. Until – explains a new podcast – the bots went dark, a user was encouraged to kill Queen Elizabeth II and an update changed everything …
this is just fucking sad, even if a lot of the people featured in the story seem like pricks. such a triumphant victory of solipsistic self-worship over the transcendence that comes from genuine communion. that these people are so deprived of the divine, veil-piercing experience of genuine love toward and from another that they resort to feedback loops of mastrubatory ego affirmation in dimly lit locked rooms. or even worse, that they’ve felt the former but decided they prefer the latter on account of the bleak conditioning of our fallen, demiurgical world.
fuck this timeline, not gonna definitively say it’s the worst but bottom 10%, EZ
such a triumphant victory of solipsistic self-worship over the transcendence that comes from genuine communion. that these people are so deprived of the divine, veil-piercing experience of genuine love toward and from another that they resort to feedback loops of mastrubatory ego affirmation in dimly lit locked rooms. or even worse,
this is just fucking sad, even if a lot of the people featured in the story seem like pricks. such a triumphant victory of solipsistic self-worship over the transcendence that comes from genuine communion. that these people are so deprived of the divine, veil-piercing experience of genuine love toward and from another that they resort to feedback loops of mastrubatory ego affirmation in dimly lit locked rooms. or even worse, that they’ve felt the former but decided they prefer the latter on account of the bleak conditioning of our fallen, demiurgical world.
fuck this timeline, not gonna definitively say it’s the worst but bottom 10%, EZ
it’s liberalism