/wiz/ - Wizardry

i do think, but i dont care. Its not that i will die because of it anyway.

Nowdays i just care about money. Not being homeless and having basic comfort in life is enough for me.

Frankly, it is what it is. I used to feel bad about it but even then there was almost a perverse kind of satisfaction in that feeling of being apart, like I was some strange creature only here to observe the other humans. I think we all have to accept our lots in life sooner or later. I'd wager most here are in their late 20s or 30s, at that point it becomes harder and harder to change either way, even if you wanted to. Best most people can manage are making small, gradual steps towards a future they want.
Me I am just trying to finish my bachelors before I turn 28. I'd like to earn money to buy a couple of things to make my mom's basement where I live a little bit more cozy. Bookshelves with books, an armchair, those sorts of things. Beyond that as long as my parents and our dogs are doing well, that is already a huge blessing. You have to remember that our lives could be infinitely worse, just ask the third world / poor posters on here.

I'm too shallow to have any regrets like that.

The status quo of inaction is better. A small discomfort at the start becomes a heartbreak at the end. Trust the early signs.

>>224563
>your perspective to be integrated into a larger being
That's the plot of many dystopian stories and yet you new age transhumanist' guru worshipping religious nut jobs keep presenting it like a utopia that will end all conflict and suffering like a hungry wolf would propose to a tortured rabbit. You sicken me.

>>224761
>harder and harder to change either way
To change what and why? Normies don't say or do anything remotely interesting. All we're doing here is meeting others' expectations so that they give us what we think we need. That's reality and any further idea about reality is an illusionary layer of drama we build on top of it because we find reality itself insufficient. Just sleep when tired, eat when hungry, chop wood and carry water? Oh noes I can't stand it you guys I need meaning and purpose and friends and girlfriends and a career and skills and speak languages and travel and find immortality and become a king and create great works of art and…
…all that blasphemy on a board for wizards.

Is this a RP about joining a hivemind?
Or a really weird analogy for intercourse?

Ether way no thanks.

>>224765
To change your life such that you find it worth living, obviously. If you've been anhedonic for long enough you will start to crave any kind of change that will make you feel alive in some way again. I used to be happy going about my day, playing my games, consuming media and genuinely I was content. Nowadays I am simply bored with everything. I don't search for purpose, I search for peace. So now I'm trying the whole school thing to occupy my time, if nothing else. It's difficult and I am not very good at it yet but just having something new to do is better than previously. Making that change has had a positive effect on my quality of life. It even makes me appreciate my down time more, which again increases my satisfaction. Do you think that anyone who doesn't spend their waking hours in a vegetative state is automatically a crab or what?

>>224768
As long as you are not content with doing nothing you will not be content with doing anything because everything is nothing.

sometimes i feel like a child still. I have never felt like an adult and im in my mid 30s.

>>224764
Ending conflict does not seem like a productive goal or a plausible outcome of introducing hivemind. A distributed consciousness is going to elevate the concept of conflict to a new level, with multiple splinter hives competing with each other, weeding out weaknesses in a flock of communal organisms as well as in individual members of each of such organism. It's just that definition of weakness for a member may not match that of isolated individual.

>>224774
Same here. I'm 42.

Following up on the curation bit; el reg just did a good article on the problem today:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/15/ai_model_collapse_pollution/

TL;DR: 2022 is considered the cut-off for valid internet data. AI informing AI is creating a dirty feedback loop to the point that there is a real first mover advantage.