https://xkcd.com/1968/ is #TheLastDerail in a nutshell. I can try to imagine hypotheses, but I'm not sure why Randall Monroe thinks this a clever thing to say. If I wrote a fictional character saying this straight out, I'd be accused of writing a 2D straw character.
Is it just me or would this not have been part of normie signaling in 1950? Or even 1990?
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Signaling concern about nuclear armageddon was mainstream in 1980, and ecologic armageddon acceptable in 1990. Millennials need something different than boomers and GenX to worry about, and AI is too male and nerdy.
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#TheLastDerrail seems convinced that ai is just the new thing to be signalled and their concerns are the low status ones I think that the new high status thing is saying that people are just signalling concern like the other times and the real problem is x -
We didn't die in a nuclear apocalipse ,and ecological concers are too long term So now being concerned for posible apocaliptic scenarios is no longer high status Worrying about evil corporations doing whatever is the new trendy thing Or anything that involves people being evil.
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