After typing that it occurred to me that if you’re taking nude photos of yourself and posting them online, titillating a crowd, including a bunch of horny creepy fucks you’d probably not want to be in a room with in rl is part of the thrill. 😅
I’ve lived my entire pretty long life in a haze of immutable horniness. I am an unrepentant gooner and sexual deviant. That said, I don’t think I have ever commented on anyone’s pics nor engaged in any lengthy discussion. I have reasons for that but it’s not related to the gist of your question.
Coming from Reddit, aside from the sheer number of people which makes it feel less intimate, 90% of nsfw posts always looked like karma bots or OF shills and the comment section is filled with a bunch of morons that didn’t seem to realize it. It always reminded me of watching some un-self-aware boomer grandfather hitting on an uncomfortable cashier. Generally the kind of guys who are too stupid to find lemmy. Without that demographic, it’s a lot quieter. I think lemmy is a more discerning crowd.
I’m sure there were niche subs that had an active user base but on the whole most online platforms feel too random and filled with anonymous strangers to get comfortable sharing opinions.
Some of the afterdark style subs were pretty decent.
Meh, I used to use almost all the same methods, including the em dashes, ending conclusions with a mic drop statement, etc., but LLMs are so specifically patterned that you can spot it a mile away. ChatGPT talks like people, people do not talk like chatGPT.
Thanks, chatGPT!
Leave us behind? Where is it going?
People are inherently stupid. It is an essential part of our species for a reason that’s clever by no merit of our own. That reason is because fitting into social structure takes precedent over everything else. Without it being the highest priority, we are exiled from the goup which historically has spelled death and the end of our family line.
Above all we are a social animal. Of all traits, it is the entirety of our strength and survivability as a species. We believe what we are told to believe by people we believe. That’s it. The adaptability of our world modeling systems is remarkable and the vast influx of environmental data is ambiguous at best.
From the moment you are pooped out onto the earth to the moment you sink into its chilly clutches, all of us, from the beginning of humankind, believe only what our socialization allows us to believe.
Except for the very few things you’ve objectively tested with rigor, everything you think you know falls within the category of second hand knowledge by trusting that certain people are telling you the truth.
Conversely, logical deduction, mathematics, statistics, etc., etc., are not natural to our instincts. They’re skills that must be learned.
So just remember that. You, me, and the vast sea of morons that cover this planet are inherently built for fucking, hunting for resources, and being an integral part of our in-group way beyond things like understanding long term cause and effect, objective analysis, or anything else that paints a somewhat clearer picture of reality.