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The Year Narrative Ate Reality
The relationship between narrative and reality truly inverted in 2024. Events used to create narratives. Now, narratives create events. This inversion isn’t just a cultural shift—it’s also deeply tied to the tools we’ve built, the machines we’ve let shape our world. AI and automation aren’t just technological marvels; they are the engines of this... See more
kyla scanlon • The Year Narrative Ate Reality
An analysis of existential dread online, predicting AI's erosion of reality will make the internet meaningless.
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But I think for me, I think it's like really like reaching ahead right now because of an existential dread about the future.
It feels nearly impossible to understand where society is going right now. And I think we've all been aware of screen time and how much of our lives we are dedicating to these devices. Like I've been I've been painfully
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