this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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This careless interpretation (if you can even call it that) completely misrepresents the meaning of the original work. It represents the idea of using a delicate touch to handle something with the idea of punching it like a child would instead. As another song by them put it:

“Don't feed the people

But we feed the machines”

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[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 3 points 11 hours ago

I think there's also the notion that people won't invest emotional time for nothing. It has to be part of a larger transaction with a human being. Even if the transaction is extremely lopsided, as in "I love Taylor swift but she doesn't know I exist", it still has to have a human recipient.

A good analogy is psychotherapy. 99% of the work is done by the patient, but it just doesn't work without the other human. The process absolutely requires an ape to meet with another ape for anything to happen. It would work better with an untrained psychologist, than with the best fine tuned "almost-AGI" model. It's not about performance it's really existential. The concept of therapy doesn't do anything for your brain just like the concept of a strawberry doesn't do anything for your mouth.

Just like the concept of a rock song or a painting doesn't do anything for your soul.