Technology

Ban tools that pretend to be magic?

Just my guess. Butlerian jihad something. Not going to think further, I like this one fuzzy.

E-mail is just electronic mail. IRC is just electronic groupchat. Newsgroups is just an electronic notes board, like they may have on a residential building.

IM is like e-mail or IRC, but with bullshit. Forums are like newsgroups, but with bullshit.

Voice calls are like phone calls, but over ~~ the Web.~~ the Internet.

That said, i would very much welcome an entire ban of minors on the internet.

I'm split over that.

Reading fan fiction hurt me a lot - literature can be harmful, especially when it's written by late puberty teens about situations they'd want to have, relating to late puberty social dynamics and which characters they'd want to have sex with. It has damage potential for some people.

But also most of the good things I've read were over Internet too. I'm already formed by it.

Let’s just go home.

I agree, but some of it was fun. The parts created by real people, using tools for their intended purpose. Webpages - to share hypertext-connected bunches of pages. Forums - to have text discussions separated by subjects. And so on.

It broke when someone really believed you can take the human out of the loop.

But all these tools are only meaningful as an extension of the human. Mail doesn't make sense if you put a bunch of text generators that would mail each other nonsense, even if it is plausible nonsense.

We the humanity have tested ourselves with enormous computing power and have found out our worth. Here ends the optimistic age, and the pessimistic age starts, which won't be the first time they change even in the last century.

We have been weighed and found wanting. Isn't this sobering and beautiful? Only I'd like this to have happened earlier. Like 10 years ago.