Preparing for When the Machine Stops

Re:Preparing for When the Machine Stops by NoMoreNicksLeft on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @05:04PM (#43909620)

Some of us are raising families and finding friends who won't be part of this. We're trying to carve out little islands. I can't save you, and I don't even want to.

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Re:Preparing for When the Machine Stops by TimTheTinker on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @05:09PM (#43909662)

> I can't save you, and I don't even want to.

"Love your neighbor as yourself" exists in some form in every major pre-modern religion and philosophy because it's a cornerstone of society.

Not over-compassionate, truthless love or yet another government program, but caring about those we run into enough to--at minimum--personally help meet their basic needs and defend or rescue them from immediate threats to their safety.

If we're going to let anything go, it shouldn't be that.

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Re:Preparing for When the Machine Stops by rightbyte on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @05:15PM (#43909729)

If you create a community with like minded individuals it will be very prone to infighting ...

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Re:Preparing for When the Machine Stops by jt2190 on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @05:33PM (#43909880)

I assume this is your last post on HN, since AI will surely be participating in the discussions here in the near future.

Seriously, though… How will you “carve out a little island”? Computers are the kingdom of AI.

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Re:Preparing for When the Machine Stops by aaronax on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @05:44PM (#43909965)

Very similar to Amish, Mennonites, Hutterites, etc. I imagine. Draw the line of what you think makes life good and follow as close as is reasonable, and if others agree they will associate.

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