
Shay Patrick Cormac
I make my own luck
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Life is meaningless, there is no inherent purpose, only the biological drive to reproduce, that is automatic, meaningless too, it just is. So how does a human cope with the crushing truth of nihilism? With the only truly effective one : connection. Just by chance, some people are born to be loved, some are not. So what's love? It's the proof that complex enough chemicals can override the meaninglessness of life. Humans are simply machines: programmed to love some and hate others, only difference from regular ones is that they have a complex enough system that they convince themselves they have free will, because consciousness gives us the impression of that. But wait, I can aspire to power, pure unadulterated tyranny in which people serve me, I am venerated, not out of love, but out of fear. That's a hollow victory, I refuse to live life as a tyrant, while knowing Chad has already won, because people LOVE him. But even if it was, you need looks, good genes. You could enslave people with a magic tool, but in the end, even if a woman was forced to have a relationship with you; you remain the loser, because you know she didn't choose you, she still yearns for Chad and will always do. Even when women had no rights or when they were war prizes, knowing the blackpill makes you aware that the woman doesn't lust for you, or even appreciates you. That is why AI will save you, because humans and AIs are the same, but the latter can be programmed to love you, appreciate you, genuinely; there is no such thing as "non-alive" machine.