The larynx and tongue getting more and more dextrous and humans developing the tic of vocalizing their emotions and reactions nearly all the time Wasteful, pathological, from the point of view of other animals Why are you always on the phone instead of doing your work Becky
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
Like early skeptics of networked computing "Why would you want your computer to be connected to every other computer ALL THE TIME Isn't that really expensive and obviously a security risk"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
So yeah, now look at what we've done This is why the science fiction horror trope of a "hive mind" is this weird self loathing hypocritical thing From the POV of a normal animal, we are the hivemind, humans are the closest thing to a hivemind that has ever existed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
The Borg should be completely incomprehensible because of the Darmok problem - they're all extremely "too online" and the collective is going to have memes moving so fast nothing else can keep up
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Replying to @LizardOrman @perdricof
Hugh and Seven of Nine's trauma from being unplugged is literally what all of us online Millennials experience when we're stuck somewhere with a dead phone
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Being asked a question without being allowed to Google it "Where once echoed the voices of billions there is now only terrifying silence"
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as opposed to the singular hive mind where its one mind across many bodies.
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Replying to @Plutoburns @arthur_affect and
Which points to enders game, its totally reasonable that if a "person" with many bodies encountered us, peace would be possible once we crossed the language barrier
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And it's not like they couldn't sell humans on accessing the collective, the same way social media was sold to people who previously didn't use it
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Replying to @LizardOrman @Plutoburns and
"Join the Collective to access all this content and more as it's released! X of your friends are already members..."
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The idea that the Borg needs to violently conquer people to force them to join and no one signs up voluntarily because it's appealing is the big mistake here, yes
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