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The Dead Internet Theory Feels Real
The fact that we can't differentiate between bots and humans, even before ChatGPT, feels important to me somehow. Because 6.f1 the internet flattens things out, the sense of humanity and personhood becomes reduced, deflagrated in such a way that any semblance of relatability takes on a form of unreality, and the collective hallucinations that we experience as tangible "things" on the internet present us with a dissonance that's hard to articulate but very much felt. In other words, our minds are telling us one thing, and our bodies the other (after all, 8. The body is the bedrock and it The Body Keeps the Score).
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