We need to destroy the data centers and start over from a pre internet era. @MarcRebillet
Summary
A rider makes the case for electromagnetic weapons targeting every data center in America to force a hard reset back to the pre-internet era. He's dead serious. Kareem agrees, and so does a bystander who jumps in to support the idea that we peaked somewhere around GeoCities and landlines. The conversation spirals through ChatGPT's weirdly utopian vision of post-data-center life, the golden age of the internet when people made their own pages and weren't just doom-scrolling through apps, and nostalgic memories of early online experiences that were strange but genuine. The rider even admits he asked ChatGPT what destroying all infrastructure would look like, and the AI basically said it'd be painful but worth it. They joke about the guy looking like he'd lead the revolution. The vibe is half-joking, half-yearning for when hanging out meant actually hanging out.
Full Transcript
So, what's your take? I think we need to destroy the data centers and start over again from a pre-internet era.
100% agree.
Hey, I was going to disagree, but you know what? We kind of went the wrong way.
Yes. If you think about it, what really has progressed past the point of landlines and televisions? It's just we have more access to the same
now. Everything's in the apps.
You should be on community television.
I agree. I like do great on there. I would like that.
The thing that really sold this to me was I asked ChatGPT what life would be like if we destroyed the data centers. And
yeah, and it painted a very rosy utopian picture.
Really? It was like, "Look, it's going to be painful and uh, it's going to destroy pretty much all modern infrastructure, but the important things will remain and after that painful period, we will rebuild these things with like a different philosophy in mind. Ain't nothing wrong with a hard reset."
Ain't nothing wrong with that.
Ain't nothing wrong with the hard
Plug your router. Plug it back in
'cuz for a while it was pretty lit. It was good. I was like, "Oh, like I'm on GeoCities. I'm connecting with like a guy in Pakistan who I think is a girl and I'm having cyber."
See, that's good.
Yeah. And I didn't care. I was 14 just jerking off to this Pakistani guy who's claiming he's a Russian girl. And I was like, "This is so awesome." And now what is it?
Now you're talking to ChatGPT to get off.
Now he's talking to ChatGPT.
Go back to the classifieds. You could have done the same in the back of a newspaper. I miss missed connections.
Exactly. There was a period. There was a golden age of the internet. It was a precipice.
Pre-advertising when people were on there for fun making their own pages, hanging out, jerking off.
And now we got nothing. No one's jerking off anymore. Everyone's depressed. Anxious.
Well, to hang out, you have to not hang out. Now we're not even hanging out. We're just there.
Let's get back to hanging out. How do we do that? Use an electromagnetic weapon to destroy every data center in the US and the surrounding nations. And that way we will just be forced to reset.
Okay. Uh
and no one gets hurt in the process. Just Sam Altman and his puny little bank account.
You do look like the guy who would lead it.
You've got a real like [laughter]
Yeah, you got the look. I'm a white guy.
I'll sign up.
All right. This is the secret hick.
Oh, and do a tilt.
Yeah, because we're flipping things upside down. Oh, that's nice. That's nice. We go
this and then and then boom.
And that's how you know you're part of the
Oh,
yeah. A little bit of that.