#replacing brain function

[daveinediting]

In a second I'm gonna get to the concept of creative destruction which is an economics riff on evolution that made me think of that poster I saw the other day about Battlestar Galactica's ultimate killer robots: Cylons.

(The image I found online crescendos with Bender from Futurama which I think is absolutely classic 🤣🤣🤣)

The idea I'm trying to sculpt is tricky because I want to balance an approach that emphasizes how we may be at the start of losing something we don't wanna lose... with an approach that sounds a bit like articulating the economic concept of creative destruction in which new innovations replace and render obsolete old innovations. Gone, for example are horse & buggies, tube television sets (the ones with the antennae), transistor radios, typewriters, and dedicated mp3 players. Travel agents are not the deal they used to be. Neither are incandescent light bulbs, film cameras, letters in the mail, landlines, and so on.

Is any of that a big deal in the long run?

And does anyone still care?

I'm trying to balance the idea that we may be about to lose something we don't wanna lose with an idea that because it's being replaced, it's being replaced by something better.

Better?

Hmmm.

Now why... am I trying to balance these two perspectives?

Because creative destruction in the free market is one thing. But as shuttered industries then corporations then businesses then mom 'n pops give way to shuttered parts of the human brain... 

And as we bear witness to what  replaced those industries, those corporations, those businesses, those mom 'n pops...

We have yet to understand—not only the business and professional and job implications of tech replacing what our brains do—we have yet to understand the implications of our brains doing less, operating at superficial capacity on a daily basis.

I don't think we have a model for this. I don't know if we have a model for this. After after all, who are we if not sentient beings? Who are we if not thinkers? If not figure-outers? If not the perpetually curious? How else do we navigate our relentlessly changing world if it's not by thinking our way through it? 

Who are we as we offload more and more of what we would otherwise use our brains for?

And what is it exactly that'll atrophe as we do?

Yeah.

It's just that easy to go down the existential sky is falling rabbit hole.

It's just that easy to call into question, well, everything.

This does, after all, involve replacing some or much or all of what we use our minds for and it's hard to imagine that doesn't have some kind of consequence.

Especially once I start thinking about how my brain works.

[brain-rot-hour]

Who let this man dress himself?

Appalling

[britisharmymilitaryintelligence]

BITCHES FROM ALDERAAN AND CHANDRILLA WHO HAVE BEEN ON THIS PLANET FOR A VERY LONG TIME ARE BEING MANIPULATED BY OTHERS IN MANY WAYS INCLUDING THROUGH INFORMATION MANIPULATION SUCH AS PROVIDING INCORRECT DATA, WHICH IS EASIER BECAUSE BITCHES LIKE THEM DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO DEVICES ON THIS PLANET. CRIMINALS WANT TO KEEP THE BITCHES FROM ALDERAAN AND CHANDRILLA HERE TO USE THEM AND WE WANT THEM TO LEAVE THIS PLANET IMMEDIATELY.

[duskittycat]

the notes on the last post being chock-full of people saying that having a computer makes you rich and privileged are hilarious. i had a laptop when i was 14 and living with my mom who had less than a thousand dollars to her name because a generous friend bought me the laptop, which was my only computer for another four years until i was able to build my first actual desktop in highschool with my meagre student allowance (after a while of saving). wild that people are somehow able to comprehend poor people having phones, yet automatically assume that anyone with A Computer is rich bougie upper class scum

[nightmaretour]

Abled people hear "you're not allowed to use your phones here", I hear "I'm taking away half of your brain while you're here because I apply moral value to the functions it allows you access to"

[lordcephalopod]

I love when people show the entirety of their ass commenting "no such thing as unskilled labor 👏👏✊✊" on a clip of something that is very much by literal definition, skilled labor.

Sorry buddy that person had at minimum like a 3 year apprenticeship plus years of experience and other training on top of that and probably gets paid at least twice what you do.

But it's manual labor and you just demonstrated you think everyone who works with their hands is doing "unskilled" work, thereby needing to be protected by your slogan. Maybe introspect on that a little bit.

[ereh-emanresu-tresni]

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[sharkieboi]

it’s my weekend and I don’t have any appointments and it’s been snowing since like 2am so I’m having an indoor day to keep slowly organizing the new apartment and on purpose didn’t take my adhd meds (only have a few left and I’d rather save them for work if I’m going to have trouble refilling with all the weather closures) and Soup Brain certainly hits different when it’s not a workday. the lack of focus and memory still isn’t helpful but at least it doesn’t feel harmful when I forget what I’m supposed to be doing for an extended period of time.

[frogwhispererer]

having frustrating cognitive issues while doing uni -> don’t recognise the issue for a while -> don’t reach out for support because i don’t understand the problem -> finally recognise the cognitive problem and the thing causing most of it, 2 weeks after the issue had really been at its worst -> sorta resolve the issue but am now hit with both the consequences of not being able to make meaningful progress on any assessments ->now have to talk to staff about the issue in the hopes i can somewhat recover the grades i want / need -> have to admit i didn’t reach out earlier because i accidentally made myself properly stupid for 2 weeks by not sufficiently meeting a basic human need

anyway, i’m feeling like a real silly goose right now.

[endlessummernight]

yes i know kamala harris has done shitty things and holds shitty views but i am SO EXCITED to vote for a middle aged black & indian woman instead of a decaying white guy or other decaying white guy

[domjaehyun]

guys…………….. it’s working ……….and lets just say by it. … i mean my brain

[transhuman-priestess]

EDIT: 1/1/24: turning off reblogs for this because it's made my activity page fucking hell.

The poll is over, and I'm exhausted with explaining to people over and over again that my fantasies exist outside of capitalism and that i am in fact quite aware of the current moment re: technology and intellectual property.

It's was fun, but now it's not, so it goes bye-bye.

P.S. I am genuinely sorry for forgetting to add "spine" as an option.

[lulladae]

I wanna play papas freezeria really bad but my computers not plugged in and I'm just not feeling like fixing that rn. many people (my dad) think this is an easy fix and I'm just lazy (and will not help me because of that) but its not for me. im scared of plugging things in cause I got fucking electrocuted once and now I can't plug anything in without thinking about that. lesson of the day is think before u assume shit, dad. actually he literally knows the reason but he still says this shit like HE WAS THERE WHEN IT HAPPENED HE FUCKING KNO-

[vivanightcity]

a weird thing i did notice when fucking around with the nibbles replacer earlier tho

the masc refit of the juri poses still don't work for my V in photomode. But they do work for standard male with the replacer. They show up in the menu for V, but don't work. Just get the idle standing. Ditto for another pack, by a different creator.

[eldritchmochi]

i have finally finished the write up ive been working on since like thursday or something and now i get to turn around and do another one, except with extra steps and way more detail!!

[meanderfall]

Thought a little bit too hard on how much I hate executive dysfunction and how perpetually tired I am and I almost started crying