Ask HN: Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything?

I do not like the direction that almost everything is seeming to go in now. Basically everything seems to be falling apart or getting worse over time. I don’t want to blame AI on all of it because I really just think that the increased adoption of AI is bringing out the worst in people.

Impatience, greed, laziness seem to be the traits I pick up in people I interact with online and in person more than anything else now. Everything is more expensive, the content I used to enjoy consuming or making myself like game development are in such terrible states I have very little hope for what they will turn out being like in the future. Everyone just seems to be trying to make as much money as possible while trying to use their brain as little as possible and it’s so draining to be surrounded by that all the time.

I don’t want to participate in this, I literally want to unplug and go live in the forest somewhere. Anyone else?

6 points | by lualover 6 hours ago

5 comments

  • markus_zhang 12 minutes ago
    I’d say find like minded people in your local and befriend with them. Going go into the cave does push away whatever you don’t want to see, but leaves you with resentment that is unhealthy.

    Get into offline meetings and promote your ideas. Give your voice to the locals as well as the online communities.

  • leecommamichael 6 hours ago
    Been there, I unplugged a little bit here and there and it helped. You’re feeling something large which may only need a minor adjustment.
  • unsupp0rted 4 hours ago
    Are you kidding? I've been waiting for these times since I was a kid and read Asimov and Kurzweil.

    Living through these times now is like 14-year-old me receiving a new birthday present more or less every day.

    Multiple times a week I get the sense I won the "lucky to not have been born a generation earlier" lottery.

  • pestatije 4 hours ago
    For a fee, you can experience the difference

    https://www.forestholidays.co.uk/

  • chistev 3 hours ago
    "I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone"