“15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.”
— Noah Smith
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the age of the Internet has made it harder to know ourselves in relation to real time.
Becky Thompson • Teaching With Tenderness
Looking back five years after the initial Dark Forest essay and pangs of concern, what most stands out is something that those of us who are drawn to Dark Forests have felt longer than most: that the internet is real life. What we do “in here” matters just as much as — and for some of us, problematically, even more than — what happens “out there.”
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Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
the internet used to be a place! Or at least it was for me. I love how the internet exposes the weird and funny things about being a person alive in the world.