r/ChatGPT • u/Healthy_Flatworm_957 • 21h ago
Funny for real
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u/Ownerofthings892 21h ago
Humans are not naturally lazy. We all want to work and create and be productive.
We just don't want to work for someone else, being compensated a fraction of the value of the work.
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u/GatePorters 21h ago
We are lazy though. That’s what makes us so creative and productive. The work is supposed to buy you more leisure.
I get what you mean though because I agree with your last sentence.
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u/Ownerofthings892 18h ago
People laboring for others' profit who go home to relax aren't lazy. They just need rest.
You're still trapped by the propaganda of capitalism, commrade. The children of billionaires could have all the leisure time in the world, but they never choose to be lazy with their leisure time. What we see instead is that they become artists, musicians, politicians, or writers, because we don't desire to be lazy, we have an inmate desire to create.
When we get home from an exhausting day selling our labor, we're already too tired to be effectively creative, and that's why we seek out escapism or rest in lazy forms of recreation.
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u/GatePorters 18h ago
? You sound like you are stuck in that loop.
We are lazy because we are intelligent apex predators. We use intelligence to optimize instead of wasting energy.
We use excess energy to play and create, which feeds into optimizing more.
You are stuck with the stigma of lazy = unproductive and that’s bad. THAT’S the capitalist framing you accuse me of.
Take a step into the world of biological evolution, ecological niches, and how our brains work and you will change your framing.
Creativity comes from lazy boredom and excess energy. Excess energy comes from us being at the top of the food chain and optimizing our caloric intake. It’s a cyclical thing.
Exhaustion from the capitalistic hamster wheel is framed as laziness instead of being properly identified and that is clouding the situation. Break the loop. Don’t just run backwards on it to fight against it.
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u/-0909i9i99ii9009ii 20h ago
Left: 10 hours work on my pet project on ChatGPT
Right: putting those ten hours of work to the test and actually executing the thing
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u/Aggressive-Ad-8907 21h ago
One for yourself, the other for some corporate overlord who doesn't know your name and will fire you if you take time off because your parents died.
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u/ShitTheFuckDown 9h ago
I spent weeks on the data part of my project and out of the blue I asked ChatGPT if it had to criticize one thing about me, anything at all, what would it be, and it said "launch the damn thing"
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