#existential-thoughts — Public Fediverse posts
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🎉 Behold, the riveting tale of a coder's existential crisis—where "fun" is redefined as babysitting AI agents that do all the actual work. 🤖 Welcome to 2026, where every keyboard warrior is an "AI engineer" and nobody reads past the buzzwords. 🚀
https://yasint.dev/we-might-all-be-ai-engineers-now/ #codercrisis #AIengineers #futureofwork #existentialthoughts #techbuzzwords #HackerNews #ngated -
CW: Highly existential thoughts on hope, prompted by a John Green video on the Vlog Brothers channel; may be too bleak for some
We often agree with John Green on many topics, but we do not agree with his thoughts shared in the latest video.
We wrote our thoughts in a comment under the video, but we wanted to share them here too.
We don't really agree with you fully on this John, if we're understanding you correctly. You make it sound like you cannot strive for a better world without having hope, but so very many people keep going not because of having hope, but in spite of feeling somewhat or even entirely hopeless. As a realistic nihilist (not an optimistic one, like from the Kurzgesagt video), there may be no inherent meaning to existence, but we get to give our life meaning. We struggle daily with intense feelings of anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and hopelessness not because we genuinely feel we're going to win or succeed, but because we have to try in spite of everything. That isn't clinging to hope: it's continuing in spite of hopelessness. It's siege mentality. It's expecting to lose, but refusing to give in. It's defiance, stubbornness, and spite: not hope. We make a choice every day to keep trying because there are people out there who need help whom we can help, even just a little, but sometimes a lot more than we realise. It's possible to feel so broken and destroyed that you just want to give into the void some or even most of the time, with your mood changing like the ebb and flow of the tides or a flash flood from a monsoon, but still find yourself clinging to a piece of debris when the storm clears a little, treading water with all your energy, just so you can keep somebody else's head above the water to stop them from drowning. Is this enough for anybody to keep going? Not really, and we'd never judge or criticise anybody for wanting to let go at a time of their choice, and one day we may hit a particularly-bad storm that finally capsizes us for good, but until then, we'll keep going without any real sense of hope or belief, because maybe we can help a few others... and maybe some of them will have hope and may challenge the darkness and horrors of this world.
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Real Biological Clock Is You're Going to Die
https://hmmdaily.com/2018/10/18/your-real-biological-clock-is-youre-going-to-die/
#HackerNews #RealBiologicalClock #LifeAndDeath #HumanMortality #ExistentialThoughts
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Ah, the classic debate: 📚 vs. 📱. Spoiler alert: quitting social media probably just means you'll spend more time staring at walls, contemplating existential dread instead of #reading those dusty tomes. But hey, at least you'll have a better view! 🤔📖
https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/if-you-quit-social-media-will-you-read-more-books #socialmedia #debate #books #existentialthoughts #digitaldetox #mindfulness #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, behold the literary brilliance of the Internet as it presents the existential *boing*. 🥳 A profound meditation on the state of digital journalism, where depth is now measured in echoing singular syllables. 🐸 Bravo, Pulitzer awaits!
https://boing.greg.technology/ #literarybrilliance #digitaljournalism #existentialthoughts #echoingsyllables #Pulitzerawaits #HackerNews #ngated -
SHORTS 173: Black Holes and Billy Joel (Not Vulgar)
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https://intoyourhead.ie/2025/11/01/shorts-173-black-holes-and-billy-joel-not-vulgar/
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🐍👨💻 AI coding: where "intellectual" programmers pretend that their dramatic pauses and existential keyboard stares are "thinking." 🤔💭 It's not procrastination; it's "crafting the next Picasso of software" while secretly hoping AI will do all the real work. 🚀✨
https://chrisloy.dev/post/2025/09/28/the-ai-coding-trap #AIcoding #intellectualprogrammers #procrastination #softwaredevelopment #existentialthoughts #HackerNews #ngated -
👨💻 In a shocking revelation, a website dedicated to the groundbreaking topic of *drum roll please* ... bash prompts! 🥳 Because who doesn't want to scroll through an endless list of travel destinations while pondering the existential significance of their command line? ✈️👨💼
https://www.gilesorr.com/bashprompt/prompts/ #bashprompts #traveltech #existentialthoughts #commandlineinnovation #hackernews #HackerNews #ngated -
When did you first start worrying for humankind?
https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/when-did-you-first-start-worrying
#HackerNews #worryforhumankind #concernforhumanity #existentialthoughts #reflection #socialissues
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Lately I've been thinking about how life feels static until it isn't
Like you often get into routines, doing the same things , with the same people or animals, in the same places and it can feel like this state of life could just continue forever
But it doesn't continue forever, something will eventually happen to change things, for better or worse
It's weird to think that my life in a year, or two, or ten could be completely different
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"Existential comics": March of the Penguins, Narrated by Soren Kierkegaard
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/521
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#ExistentialComics #SorenKierkegaard #PhilosophyHumor #Existentialism #ComicStrip #MarchOfThePenguins #Philosophy #Humor #Comedy #Satire #PhilosophyMemes #PhilosophicalHumor #ExistentialThoughts #FunnyComics -
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Я размышляю о смысле жизни, её целях и причинах, а также о том, какова цель 'я', если ты умрёшь.
Если сознание 'я' ограничено телом и вынуждено принудительно соответствовать правилам реальности, и при этом у нас есть защита от самоуничтожения, то, возможно, жизнь можно рассматривать как своеобразное заключение в тюрьме.
Мысли про сознание 'я'.English:
"I contemplate the meaning of life, its goals and reasons, as well as the purpose of 'self' when one dies. If the 'self' is constrained by the body and compelled to conform to the rules of reality, all while having protection from self-destruction, then life can perhaps be viewed as a peculiar confinement in a prison. Thoughts on the 'self'."#ContemplateLifeMeaning #LifeGoals #PurposeOfSelf #SelfConfinement #RealityRules #SelfProtection #LifeReflections #ExistentialThoughts #MeaningOfExistence #IdentityInDeath