• hypnoton@discuss.online
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    4 months ago

    They’re not bots, for sure.

    I no longer have an active account on reddit but I read it from time to time using the Stealth app.

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      4 months ago

      Oh some aren’t, for sure, but then when their words are copied verbatim they become so, unbeknownst to their original writers. So yeah, they aren’t “all” bots, but some are.

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        4 months ago

        Of course if you’re going to wax philosophical, what’s the difference between us and bots if we are both programmed? Maybe a bot is 100% driven by their programming while a human is 99% programming and 1% genuine creativity and intelligence that just slips through the cracks in our programming on occasion when we get particularly honest with ourselves.

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          4 months ago

          Perhaps that’s why people often say “they are bots”, even when some are not bots, bc they might as well be?

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              4 months ago

              It takes supreme effort to rise up from hollowing ourselves out to be a receptical for whatever authority figures want to fill us with. Why, we might have to watch a whole 5-minute video!? (Tbf, usually it takes a lot more than that, like at least 7-10:-P) It’s easier to simply parrot the words given to us by people quite a bit dumber than we know ourselves to be. They are quite aware of that, and make great use of it.

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                  4 months ago

                  The Truth is surprisingly difficult to find, buried amongst so much active disinformation, but once we do, we can never unlearn it (…I hope, though I probably should learn to pretend like I don’t, to survive the fascist regime to come).

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                    4 months ago

                    The fascists do NOT have this timeline on lock. Although they will probably make some noise one last time before disappearing into the sunset.