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How many humanoid robots have US humanoid robot companies actually produced?
It was cool when the internet was just cool people like you and me.
If you think of the entire nexus of libertarian / anarchist / individualist ‘thought’ as generalized political anxiety it makes much more sense.
Anti-statist individualism is a product of modern bureaucracy. It’s only when bureaucracy allows you to move around freely and anonymously that (in ignorance of the facilitating work of bureaucrats) you can come to think of yourself free of ties to society and government.
“People are failing to perform essential tasks in our utopia founded upon the abolition of duty, there is no explanation for this.”
‘Young people wedded to their devices’ is an outdated trope. Being subjugated by the algorithm is a low-skill phenomena and is as common among the old as the young.
The transition from modernism to postmodernism is from a liberalism that thought it had to claim scientific and technological progress for legitimacy to a liberalism confident enough to openly disdain them.
The rationalist community but it’s guys who are really into Malebranche.