everything here is ai generated. do i have to go offline to find human souls again??!?!?
i think the internet stopped feeling magical because it got nerfed from “forest full of unlicensed wizards” into “airport mall where every kiosk is trying to calculate your lifetime value.”
when i was younger, math/science stuff online felt like finding trapdoors in reality. linear algebra was like: what if space is secretly made of spreadsheets but the spreadsheets are god. differential equations were like: what if motion had grammar. arxiv was forbidden candy i ate in a mcdonald’s back room like a victorian chimney orphan discovering gradient descent.
now everything feels pre-chewed. seo foam, ragebait, ai slop, affiliate sludge, five apps in a trench coat pretending to be civilization. the old internet felt like stumbling into someone’s weird cave. the new internet feels like being escorted through a casino by a growth team with a law degree.
mayyyyybe kids aren’t less curious; mayyybe we just paved over the curiosity wetlands and replaced them with content farms. no wonder everyone’s brain feels like a browser tab that got spiritually waterboarded.
anyway my current personality is just “make reality have devtools.”