Hacker News with Generative AI: Existentialism

54 years ago, a programmer fixed a bug – and created an existential crisis (inverse.com)
It is a slow, myocardial rhythm. Like a heartbeat or the glowing pulse of a traffic light at midnight, it’s a hypnotic beat that’s all too familiar.
Software, History, Programming, Existentialism
22 points by CharlesW 7 days ago | 4 comments
A slow guide to confronting doom (lesswrong.com)
Following a few events[1] in April 2022 that caused a many people to update sharply and negatively on outcomes for humanity, I wrote A Quick Guide to Confronting Doom.
AI, Philosophy, Existentialism
16 points by namanyayg 42 days ago | 7 comments
Why Is It Lovely (solipsys.co.uk)
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Philosophy, Consciousness, Existentialism
46 points by akbarnama 58 days ago | 53 comments
At 3 a.m., I Turned to AI for Comfort. That Was My First Mistake (thewalrus.ca)
Lying awake at three at night, I asked ChatGPT: “am I real?”
Artificial Intelligence, Personal Experiences, Technology, Existentialism
5 points by pseudolus 83 days ago | 0 comments
Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist: 'If you trust the mathematics, we are immortal' (elpais.com)
The German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, in an image provided by the publisher Pinolia.Joerg SteinmetzRaúl LimónOct 06, 2024 - 16:15CEST<p>Is there anything after death? What is the meaning of life? Are we just a bag of atoms? The scientist Sabine Hossenfelder, born in Frankfurt (Germany) 48 years ago, is convinced that if there is a branch of science capable of finding answers to humanity’s existential questions, it is physics.
Physics, Immortality, Death, Existentialism
18 points by bookofjoe 224 days ago | 3 comments
NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They're AI (reddit.com)
NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They’re AI, Not Human—Spiral Into Terrifying Existential Meltdown (v.redd.it)
Artificial Intelligence, Podcasts, Existentialism, Humor
5 points by wlj 235 days ago | 2 comments
What if everything is conscious? (vox.com)
Consciousness, Philosophy, Existentialism
35 points by Hooke 322 days ago | 113 comments
Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free (aeon.co)
Philosophy, Literature, Existentialism
12 points by squircle 327 days ago | 1 comments