Man from uncontacted tribe emerges in Amazon, villagers demonstrate a lighter

Re:Man from uncontacted tribe emerges in Amazon, villagers d... by vdupras on Sunday February 16, 2025 @07:15AM (#43067446)

And then I began to wonder what if we could isolate a whole country from the effects of LLMs. I know, impossible, but what if. They get to keep the old internet and all. A fork in the road. Just no LLMs at all. I wonder, after a few decades, how it would turn out comparatively to the rest of the world.

Or what about no internet? No computers? Would that country really turn out that bad?

Hubris at the individual level is rather easy to discern. At the civilizational level, it's a bit harder.

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Re:Man from uncontacted tribe emerges in Amazon, villagers d... by JKCalhoun on Sunday February 16, 2025 @08:44AM (#43067901)

Honestly, if no-internet was forced on society I think it would be a net good thing (ignore accidental pun).

Probably though TV was the beginning of the downward spiral.

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Re:Man from uncontacted tribe emerges in Amazon, villagers d... by wincy on Sunday February 16, 2025 @08:55AM (#43068005)

The thing is this feeling always happens to be “stop things right at the point that I grew up in”. The Amish felt similarly in the 1800s which is why they cut their beards in a way so as not to be confused with Continental soldiers despite there no longer being Continental soldiers.

If everything else falls apart the Amish will be out in the middle of nowhere doing their thing. If you want to see what it looks like to stop the clock, go talk with them. They’ll happily have a chat with you if you buy some furniture from them.

Heck, my friend was Amish for most of his childhood. Then his parents pulled him out of it. Then he fell in with the wrong crowd and struggled with heroin addiction for several years before getting clean. And that’s a far, far smaller cultural shock than an uncontacted tribe. Sometimes he says he wishes he could go back.

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Re:Man from uncontacted tribe emerges in Amazon, villagers d... by techjamie on Sunday February 16, 2025 @09:05AM (#43068087)

There are definitely countries that'll be isolated from them. It's just most of those countries are also isolated from everything else. Eg. North Korea

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Re:Man from uncontacted tribe emerges in Amazon, villagers d... by erikerikson on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:50AM (#43112147)

Roughly speaking, consider Amish country

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