really this is the endgame of the whole British state, which is not a nanny state in the right-wing sense but which does view its subjects as basically infantile morons who need to be electroshocked into becoming the right type of economic asset to Unlock Growth

Social media brainrot for kids? Bad, very bad.

But AI brainrot for kids? Good, actually!

this is rooted in the contempt of the British elite for democracy, meaning an educated, informed, socially mobile populace, resulting today in this paradoxical search for a way to make a mass of disempowered plebs economically productive without educating them. So uh AI I guess??

@zakaria6827 @nise_yoshimi I'd like to know how a child learning about something will know if it starts hallucinating, how will they know how to steer it back to reality if they don't understand enough about the subject?

@nise_yoshimi Blocked from chatting to their friends on social media but being taught by a nazi machine that was raised on racism and pornography by sociopath billionaires. Christ.

@wr1nkl3 a thousand deaths to the cult of lee kuan yew

@wumpyjumps It means the general homogeneous blob of politicians that rule Britain, a class of which the labour right, having no inherent values except those it has imbued on its rise, embodies perfectly

@nise_yoshimi It rings so much sinister still when we take a step back and appreciate all the proper kids getting educated in vastly more functional institutions and with a relative surfeit of human attention, while the poor kids get hooked up to the Sloppotron that replaces their imagination

@zakaria6827 @nise_yoshimi Spoken like someone with AI brain damage.

@nise_yoshimi And all the technocrat tweaking is always wrong so none of the “growth” becomes anything other than squeezing max rent value. Not build anything of value.

@nise_yoshimi YouTube (used correctly) is infinitely more valuable than AI slop. I kick myself everyday for not using it as much when I was a teenager.

@nise_yoshimi DON'T GOON

@nise_yoshimi When ur shopping for freikorps, the dumber the better

@nise_yoshimi I mean that was essentially LKY’s model and Singapore turned out okay

@nise_yoshimi don't worry its not all british children. just the poor ones.

@nise_yoshimi Genuinely better to train pedophiles as teaching assistants.

@nise_yoshimi Does the 'elite' here mean people in power or their background? Because IMO the Labour Right might have more contempt for democracy and its values than even the right-wing parties. They've always seen their members and voters as an annoying obstacle.

@nise_yoshimi That, despite being a wee bit on the nose for most denizens of the cyberpunk dystopia shelf, seems to be shaking out as the desired way forward. Is the Sloppotron brought to us by our friends at Nestle? Who's to say, but my kid hates there are untapped aquifers out there still

@nise_yoshimi the british will revert back to their pre-roman bog-swimming days within a couple of generations

@nise_yoshimi 1/ Tony Benn said it years ago. This is The Fabian mindset. This is how they think. What they believe. It is the notion that people should be managed. That since they didn't go to the right schools or universities. They didn't didn't do the right courses and have the right jobs..