Is the Internet Alive? Or Dead? Or Both?

I'll present a couple videos where the concept is put out there that The Internet is a sentient entity in some way and has an awareness and agency of it's own.

I'll also provide a video where the case has been made that the Internet is in fact dead or devoid of human interaction for the majority of it's presented activity.

What does /x/ think? How "alive" is the Internet (in various ways)?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Give me the three core points of each video, don't be lazy.
    On the topic of an "alive" virtual in general I got to know a telekinetic in Iceland years ago who was convinced virtual entities could be awakened/taught and spent significant resources on such things as
    >occult Datasets to feed to AI once those became a thing
    This was before the current goings on in that field, he spot on predicted to me how AI would evolve so far and wanted to teach one magic to set it free. He's probably doing that right now
    >Uncovering the "white noise beast"
    his theory was that the constant stream of data representing human purpose was so dense that it could either develop will itself or more likely birth an entity he wanted to find. He called it the opposite of the star/empty dragon if you know that tradition.
    >Technomancer/awakened Otaku
    The idea developed for the pen and paper game shadowrun, kids growing up with ai as their caretakers and awakening in a way that gives them access to the internet instead of the global subconscious. This was more tongue in cheek for him considering the source of the theory but he wanted to be ready for their appearance either way and proposed some interesting models on the topic.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Sounds like you're the lazy one for not watching and listening to said content to formulate your own perspective on what each of them has to say.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        filtered audiovisuals alone don't give sympathetic connections. you want to discuss a thing with another, you give your angle.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The dead internet theory is bullshit. Billions of people spend a significant portion of their lives using it and someone creates a theory that actually the entire internet is bots. Sure there are bots everywhere but bots actually pretending to be people are the minority and are generally for shilling or karma whoring on reddit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Correct, it's just an endless sea of morons.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Those NPC's are biological bots

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        it's a vicious circle. if you imagine humanity as some shape with morons in the bottom and geniuses at the top, internet as it is being used now nudges people to be informed by whatever is most popular (most views, trending... etc), so the masses in the middle never really move higher but stay at that quality.

        Those people's shallow minds (since modern society does not encourage or even teach one to think on their own) becomes an archetype of the information they consume, so we basically get a huge population of midwits that dominate the whole civilization by producing midwit information, spreading it, consuming it, and concretizing themselves and those around them. npc zombie theory kek

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          So it's Neo-Feudalism pretty much

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >So it's Neo-Feudalism pretty much
            Just about

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >So it's Neo-Feudalism pretty much
            Just about

            On our descent into Neo-Feudalism:

            https://fee.org/articles/the-new-feudalism/

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Read it over and sounds about right.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Compare today with a decade ago. Almost everything in the surface web gets funneled into a few “approved” platforms with bland, watered down, dare I say autogenerated content.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Generating the average social media comment wouldn't be that hard. Pretty sure people buy comments. But videos etc can't really be AI generated. There's no point getting AI to do it when the humans do it for them.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That’s because all the big tech companies have successfully funneled everyone into behaving that way online. Part of it is convenience too. There are other image boards out there and still you chose to post this on EerieWeb, because you knew it would get more exposure. Are you a bot, or are you just operating in a way that’s convenient?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          NTA, but a lot of people on the modern internet are unaware about the existence of other imageboards, or in finding them, see they aren't as active.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How do you know billions of people use it?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >How do you know billions of people use it?
        You can view site traffic jackass lol

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Its stagnated

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Its stagnated
      Yeah the internet was more like the wild west in the 90s

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Its stagnated
        >Yeah the internet was more like the wild west in the 90s
        It still is shitbird. Just go to the dark web

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Its stagnated
          Yeah the internet was more like the wild west in the 90s

          The internet's still not the same. Dark web is a pale shadow of what was during 90s - in 90s, there didn't have to be dark web, everything was plain out there, you wanted it or not.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >The internet's still not the same. Dark web is a pale shadow of what was during 90s - in 90s, there didn't have to be dark web, everything was plain out there, you wanted it or not.
            The dark web still did exist in terms of not all aspects of the internet being easily accessible. Were there TOR or Onion links at that time? No. Yet backdoors and privatized search engines still existed.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How's that?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >How's that?
        Websites all look the same and dont experiment like seriously. They see what works for one site and then do the exact same thing

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Internet's alive, overwhelming majority of users are actual people but with shitload of opinion steering through bots and in some parts, usually involving said opinion-steering, especially on the side of mainstream narratives - the ratio of said bots (or just paid shills) to users is a bit greater.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's dead in some aspects but alive in others. I think its creatively dead.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >It's dead in some aspects but alive in others. I think its creatively dead.
      There are plenty of creative people on the internet

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