[HN Gopher] An Age of Hyperabundance
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       An Age of Hyperabundance
        
       Author : vector_spaces
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2024-08-22 06:24 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | datadrivenangel wrote:
       | "What really frightened me was the future of mediocrity they
       | suggested: the inescapable screens, the app-facilitated
       | antisocial behavior, the assumptions advanced as knowledge, and
       | above all the collective delusion formulated in high offices and
       | peddled to common people that all this made for an easier life."
       | 
       | The singularity is here, but it's actually the singularity of
       | mediocrity. Which is ironic, because we have more technology
       | prowess than ever.
        
         | Zaskoda wrote:
         | "The singularity is here, but it's actually the singularity of
         | mediocrity."
         | 
         | I like this line a lot.
        
       | kushie wrote:
       | > Bradley had read my essay "HUMAN_FALLBACK" in n+1's Winter 2022
       | issue in which I described my year impersonating a chatbot for a
       | real estate start-up.
       | 
       | HN seemed to like this writing (I really did)
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33966059
        
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