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life in the current year has an extremely surreal quality to it
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 2:55 PM Author: Total Technology Death nothing seems 'real' anymore
it's hard to put into words, but the feeling is becoming stronger and stronger as time goes on. i think that part of it is me getting older, but i get the impression that other people are feeling it too |
Date: January 23rd, 2026 2:56 PM Author: vibeman we're interacting and sharing synthetic content as if it's normal - it's satanic.
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 2:58 PM Author: Earth is Hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612406) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:04 PM Author: Total Technology Death everything feels Synthetic. even when you're entirely offline and irl, it still all feels surreal and fake
nothing feels magical. nothing feels 'open.' the future feels deterministic rather than a shared, ongoing story that you and everyone else are participating in together
like i said, part of it (i think) is me getting older. but i really get the sense from other people, even younger people, that they feel the same way too |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:06 PM Author: ruinous phenotype the world is content (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612442) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:25 PM Author: Total Technology Death cr that's a good way to put it
it has become less than Life. it has become Content |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:08 PM Author: vibeman cr we've inverted the world and whats important
online drives offline - making everything feel robotic/fake/deterministic |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:28 PM Author: Consuela i.e. see baudrillard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612520) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:31 PM Author: vibeman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612538) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:06 PM Author: Kenneth Play (emotional girth) cr that puts OP into focus for me also - we are interacting with images/simulations/pictures on the wall, rather than real things/beings/souls (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613008) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:11 PM Author: vibeman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613016) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 2:57 PM Author: ruinous phenotype (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612393) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 2:59 PM Author: Consuela how does one know what is real when all institutions and experts and influencers are corrupted, all audio-visual electronic data can easily be faked, and anything you read may be written by an AI or bot? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612409) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:02 PM Author: vibeman we don't
https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5813069&mc=10&forum_id=2
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:06 PM Author: Consuela i use two methods to ground myself:
(1) recursive political/cultural predictions; i make predictions about the future and to the extent they turn out to be wrong, i update my worldview
(2) phenomenological living, i.e. i trust my senses and ground authority much more within myself than before
people who don't think about how to ground themselves are really flailing |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:10 PM Author: vibeman cr
"people who don't think about how to ground themselves are really flailing"
*opens up free chatGPT app and gets blasted with invisible tunnels and ads* |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:11 PM Author: Consuela (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612469) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:10 PM Author: Bill McHenry is a 26-year-old White male and xo is a parasocial relationship orgy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612465) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 8:05 PM Author: Genius Theologian How is it parasocial I've been talking to oyt every 4 months about how stupid meditation is for like 12 years (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613100) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:14 PM Author: .,.,.,.,.,...,.,,.,,.....,.,..,.,,...,.,.,,...,. you should have bought gold and silver (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612474) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:34 PM Author: Genius Theologian Important thread. Irrelevant, though, as it's posted on a web forum as out of date as irl. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612544) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:37 PM Author: Total Technology Death should i invent a new religion (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612556) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:47 PM Author: Genius Theologian I think that used to be something to do but probably not anymore (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612593) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:38 PM Author: UhOh really feels like BIG CHANGES are imminent. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612557) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:45 PM Author: Total Technology Death Narrator: "They aren't" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612587) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:50 PM Author: '"'"'"''" Went to the "doctor's" office for a physical today.
The doctor doesn't bother to see patients. You only get to see a nurse pracitioner who doesn't have a medical degree.
The nurse assistant taking my vitals barely spoke English and I couldn't understand her.
The phlebotomist taking my blood barely spoke English, but I could understand her slightly better.
No one will call to follow up with any results.
It's weird how things used to just work well in America. |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:54 PM Author: Earth is Hell gonna get so much worse with a quickness
just you wait |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:55 PM Author: '"'"'"''" will do, thank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612624) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 3:56 PM Author: Matthias of Redwall Did Nothing Wrong #Cornflower (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612625) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:01 PM Author: Total Technology Death (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612994) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:03 PM Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( ) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49612999) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:04 PM Author: Matthias of Redwall Did Nothing Wrong #Cornflower (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613003) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:12 PM Author: vibeman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613019) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 9:54 PM Author: Matthias of Redwall Did Nothing Wrong #Cornflower (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613391) |
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Date: January 24th, 2026 2:14 AM Author: ,.,..,,.,.....,.,, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613801) |
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Date: January 24th, 2026 2:27 AM Author: Matthias of Redwall Did Nothing Wrong #Cornflower (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613811) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:38 PM Author: Yummy Phase Pol Pot Run of the mill GPs are in big trouble. Even if the medical establishment will work to protect them, these are typically smart enough people who can sense how precarious their roles are becoming (or already are.)
Smart doctors at this point either need a serious niche specialty, to actually perform procedures as part of their work, or (sadly) get into content / branded products.
There are some decent sized YouTube channels with doctors who clearly use their MD to build sizable "infotainment" channels. This will continue to be a trend across many formerly-specialty fields going forward. |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:40 PM Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( ) lmao when is humanity just going to admit that it sucks and put an end to this madness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613070) |
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Date: January 24th, 2026 2:13 AM Author: evan39 I went to a doctor recently and had a similar experience. Then I got a bunch of spam emails asking me to fill out a "survey" for their website. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613799) |
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Date: January 24th, 2026 2:15 AM Author: ,.,..,,.,.....,.,, Anal cancer? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613802) |
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Date: January 24th, 2026 2:16 AM Author: evan39 How dare you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613803) |
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Date: January 24th, 2026 2:51 AM Author: ban spaceporn Hemorrhoids? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613844) |
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Date: January 24th, 2026 2:57 AM Author: evan39 I'd rather not say. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613855) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:04 PM Author: Talk to your kids about time dilation. (🧐) everything is computer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613004) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:32 PM Author: Yummy Phase Pol Pot Part of it (as others have said) is that online is informing offline (instead of vice versa.) This is made doubly insane because the online part of the equation is driven by algorithms on 3 - 4 platforms.
But I think the bigger underlying issue that makes things feel "surreal" overall is "Information Collapse."
Maybe this isn't the best term, but what I mean is that information not only has instantaneous reach, but also near-total organization. Nothing is loose and free (outside of XO), it's all taxonimized by whatever platform it exists on regardless of the format (text, video, etc.)
This is (obviously) exacerbated by AI and the fact that seemingly 99% of people are using LLMs for all of their professional online communication. So everyone sounds the same and has the same cadence.
So then you find yourself jumping from AI-written emails to Zoom meetings (AI assistant enabled!) wherein everything is being recorded (and further taxonimized.) And you suddenly think to yourself: "wait...if everything can be communicated instantaneously AND categorized in real time...why do we need to communicate at all? What am I even doing here? What is anyone doing? Is it all just theater?"
It seems that people knowingly or unknowingly play this forward in their minds and it has a strange effect. You couple this with the fact that the economy is entirely driven by the need to keep the debt bubble going (and not true underlying supply and demand factors), and suddenly everything just feels completely and totally fake.
On a final note, as labor has become increasingly performative, it has been given paramount importance. "You must go to the office again!" (to use LLMs to summarize data and write emails that we then talk about on Zoom for no reason?) This causes severe dissonance and odd behavior, IMO. |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:37 PM Author: ,.,..,.,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,..,..,.,,..,.,,. the covid era de-pantsed a lot of the modern economy, and exposed at least ⅔rds of 'jobs' as completely fucking worthless in any sort of hard material terms. there was a collective decision to ignore and not discuss this fact, but everyone knows it at least intuitively. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613061) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:43 PM Author: Yummy Phase Pol Pot 100% agree. Plus the end of ZIRP means many of these "jobs" will go away forever. On some level this is good because the workforce is too big relative to underlying realities. Post-WW2 economy is a total anomaly as is a consumer-spending driven economy (which enabled tons of fields and jobs that are superfluous and also happen to employ many women.)
The other surreal thing is that we went from not having LLMs to every single person in the working world talking about AI nonstop / pretending to be experts on it and centering all of the global economy around Big Datacenters.
We went from COVID -> Ukraine -> AI as the thing to throw tons and tons of money at. I have poasted this before, but we would do well to let the bubble deflate. Even if it would be brutal in the short-term. |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 8:11 PM Author: vibeman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613111) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 9:53 PM Author: nude retarded guy but my Stocks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613390) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 7:47 PM Author: Total Technology Death (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613078) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 8:10 PM Author: vibeman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613107) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 10:53 PM Author: Total Technology Death https://x.com/youngwerther123/status/2014810543123464267 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613531) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2026 11:06 PM Author: vibeman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613564) |
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Date: January 24th, 2026 1:12 AM Author: Paralegal Mohammad (Death, death to the IDF!) This has predated information and online vs offline. There’s currently a whole entire city on earth that is entirely synthetic. It’s called Dubai. It was created by slaves in the desert and new generations of slaves are still there, they live in slums and their passports are taken away and they are not paid for months at a time. But if you visit Dubai and you aren’t looking for them you would never see them. And even if you knew about them the odds are you wouldn’t even care. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5825571&forum_id=2.#49613757) |