I have serious doubts that returning to a ludite existence is truly feasible anymore. These companies, along with governments, seem intent on making it a necessity to be online and to do so without privacy.

The CEO of nvidea outright said their plans for the future involve AI agents accessing your financials and PCs being replaced with AI boxes as our interface. If they force AI into enough stuff before the bubble bursts, it won’t be a choice. The way the net works will be built for AI, not for users to manually interface with. If the infrastructure is rebuilt for AI, it won’t be a choice. With governments all pushing for OS level Id, Microsoft trying to record all user action, the push to ban VPNs, it seems like you will be making that choice sooner than you want.

I hope it works out for you but anyone who remembers a pre-internet life is middle age now and isn’t the target market for emerging tech anymore. If AI proves to be significantly advantageous, not being online to sue it will be like refusing to use computers was to the boomers. You’ll be outcompeted and lose track of how the world is changing.

For who? Where? I’m what?

So it isn’t a choice between privacy invasion or watching it burn. It’s a choice between privacy invasion and being left behind.

You can’t stop them from being racist by banning every euphemism they use. If they were smart, they’d find whatever word you love and just start using that, forcing you to have to sacrifice it.

Supplements, roids, hgh, stem cells…

For now. We’ve already seen behaviors become culturally suspect simply because they became uncommon. Not too far from vilification from there, then fear mongering, then criminalizing. I worry the value of us not having privacy is too profitable to withstand the effort to remove it.

They don’t care if kids do since that isn’t the purpose, just the excuse.

Do you even know the extent of things they know and what that information allows them to derive about you? They know the patterns of life of billions of people. You’re just a pattern to match with everyone else just like you.

We have more than we will and for some of us, who made the sacrifices and took steps, more than others.

Parents spend less time with their children than the state and culture does. Parents all work 8-10 hours a day, they can’t feasibly solve this through parenting, not without ensuring parents have the time and resources necessary to parent. That’s also not just to partner in the right directions, but to counter the efforts of billion dollar companies and governments who are all teaching children lessons that drive them in bad directions.

Parenting is not possible in the way it was in the past. Some kind of community parenting may work, but that’s an informed concept.

But it won’t burn, it will be content to leave you behind.

The impact that may have on navigating life seems significant. Have you even considered how that would actually work? Practically.

What can we do to stop this?

They care very much about making games that get bought.

Genocide.

Capturing all media distribution.

Like most companies.

Rogan takes everything as a joke so he doesn’t have to think too hard.

You’re right, and it’s failure will be the excuse to deprive us all of more of our privacy and autonomy.

Just give us more of the value for your one existence on earth, surely we’ll be more generous and not take as much value as possible, like we’ve done at every previous opportunity. Just work harder slave…