In the beginning the universe was made. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Passive morbid ideation vs suicidal ideation.
Yep. I don’t want to kill myself. But sometimes I fantasise about a heart attack or something finishing me off.
“I don’t wanna die. I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all.”
I want to have never experienced existence so I won’t know what I am missing when I no longer exist.
I also don’t want to experience the pain of dying. I just want to not be alive.
Even that’s not entirely true. I want to live. I want to exist. Just not here, on Earth.
Totally unrelated, but how do you get a username like that.
The “display name” field accepts emojis and other funky stuff that the username itself doesn’t.
ok thnx
Would be pretty dope if I could snap fingers out of existence
I want this superpower so bad
I feel a therapist should very easily understand such a simple distinction.
He understands, he’s just working out if you’re lying about not wanting to.
Can relate totally. I always give an example of hopefully getting a cancer and dying but not commiting suicide.
I’m just looking for a way to get my brain preserved and out of here 🧠 🤖
I don’t even need it preserved. Like just delete me.
I mean sure.
It’s just escapism on my part. And if we’re honest, with whoever would do it with today’s technology it would probably turn out the same way. EDIT: Schrödinger’s brain
We are legion, we are Bob.
I probably wouldn’t do copies though, original brain is my priority. I would really need to trust/respect the organization requesting it, it’d need a really good reason, and I’d need assurances.
Long known but never read that series though, I have aphantasia (on top of other things) so am not much of a reader.
Ah I see. Does that affect audio books as well? I imagine yes
I mean that would lower the bar for the activity itself (+multitasking), though I am not gonna buy or use a service and I suspect audiobooks are likely a big chunk of data too (esp. if uncompressed).
Unless speech synthesis is something that could work well here (assuming decent voice, I don’t mind older tech like DECtalk or macintalk that sounds better than some newer offline TtS options). Even that seems like it’d need some community effort, though (like manual phoneme editing).
So I’m not sure on that one. Probably not going to look into it.
For world-building, I liked Farscape for the Leviathans. One stretch of hell aside, it is a much better interpretation of biomechanical life than the standard dreary tubes-and-brain-only of most media (that is if they can even properly tell the difference between a cyborg and a robot). So that has really shaped my view on it, I’d want more microbiomes (and connection with other types of living cells) not less.
In book 4 of the series remote controlled andoids are featured heavily and the author goes into great detail to explain how the android tech is so good that it feels like inhabiting the species of creature natively.
A main feature of the series overall is about how the human main character creates a solution to just being a sentient AI in darkness disconnected from physical reality. So that doesn’t do this tends to go insane in the universe.
I’m not afraid of dying by my own hands, I’m afraid I will survive it…
People survive all kinds of brain trauma, so that at least is just a bad idea.
gary
It was only his 200th week he just needed a little time to get used to the job /s
I think it was one of them jobs where he was paid to do nothing… wouldn’t want market makers lose profit!
There’s this 15 minute video on the topic. It’s been a while since I watched it, but I think it was good.
Physics. An object at rest will remain so unless acted upon by another force.
You are the object. Your mind directs the action of your body. Your mind is ok being at rest. It feels good. Unless your spirit moves you beyond inaction you won’t do shit.
Direct communication isn’t your strong suit.
lol I know
Oh hey it’s me.
Tangentially, that guy’s eyes are creeping me the fuck out.
I’ve changed from the meme to: if I’m going to live I want to live. Not have to do a bazillion things in order to survive another day. So if I fail to do something that keeps me alive, I accept the risk of possibly dying.
That’s not really what the meme is saying.
It’s more, if my life were to end spontaneously, I would be okay with that. As long as I’m still alive, however, I will continue to make efforts to stay alive.
The feeling, which I share, is more acceptance/apathy, more than giving up when things go wrong. I don’t want to starve to death as much as the next person. But I Thanos snapped his fingers and I was dusted, that’s good. I’m okay with that.
I don’t want to die painfully, I don’t seek death. I just don’t have any strong feelings about not existing anymore.
That’s not really what the meme is saying.
I know, that is why I said “I’ve changed from the meme to:”
How did you get this picture of me?
Seriously though. If I die, I don’t have any strong feelings about that. I do however, have strong feelings about how I die. I don’t want to go out from some drug overdose, starvation, by getting crushed by gravity (fall damage), or in some violent crime.
But if I can just blink out of existence… That’s okay with me. Get hit by a train and turned into mist, okay. Seems oddly specific but I can go with it… Snapped out of existence by Thanos. Awesome, seems like it should be painless.
Stabbed 47 times, in the street for the Nickles in my pocket? No thanks. That sounds horrible. Starving? Choking on my own vomit from a drug overdose? Getting shot and bleeding out on the sidewalk? Falling to my death? No thanks. All of those seem like really unpleasant and painful ways to die.
I don’t actively seek death, but if it comes for me, I am a willing participant.
Disagree on the train part. Getting hit by a train is just getting crushed by gravity but sideways
I think it depends on the speed of the train. If it’s not going very fast, yeah, probably.
But stand in front of a bullet train and you’ll be a mist before you can register any pain.
