“A Boring Dystopia”: 50 Highly Disturbing Posts That Reveal We’re Already Living Through An Apocalypse (New Pics)
Dystopia is a world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, and fearful lives.
If you need a more vivid example, think of the novel The Children of Men (1992), by P.D. James where the human population has become infertile and lost all interest in politics, allowing the authorities to install various regulations such as mass "voluntary" suicides by the elderly, rampant cruel treatment toward prisoners of the state, and mandatory sperm testing and female inspections. Fatalism, boredom, crime, and religious hysteria are abundant, and it's not that pretty.
While such an environment might seem possible only in fiction, there is a subreddit whose members think we're actually on our way to making it a reality. It's called 'A Boring Dystopia' and these folks regularly share real-life examples of what they believe to be societal decay. Here are some of them.
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One Of The Two Remaining Northern White Rhinos In The World, Guarded 24 Hours A Day To Guard Against Poachers
A Gallery Owner Was Arrested After Leaving A 10-Foot Heroin Spoon Sculpture Outside Oxycontin Maker Purdue Pharma
Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) is widely considered to be one of the primary suspects that can send us humans into doom and gloom. And for good reason: this technology has brought many good and bad things into our lives, and it will have an even greater impact in the coming decades.
Naveen Joshi, who is the founder and CEO of Allerin, a company that develops engineering and technology solutions focused on optimal customer experiences, and has extensive experience in AI, big data, IoT, and blockchain, thinks that there are legitimate reasons to be concerned.
"Current AI research is overly focused on making advances in a narrow set of domains and pays insufficient attention to the disruptive effects on society's fabric," Joshi wrote in Forbes.
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First Time I've Seen A Message Like This On A Vehicle
There's Nothing Good About Goodwill
According to Joshi, if AI technology continues on its current path, it will likely cause social upheaval for at least two reasons.
"Firstly, AI will have an impact on the future of work. Our current trajectory over-automates work while refusing to invest in human productivity. Further advances will displace workers while failing to create new opportunities and, as a result, miss out on AI's full potential to boost productivity."
"Also, AI has the potential to undermine democracy and individual liberties."
Cheerfully Snipping Some Plastic Soda Packaging To ~save The Turtles~ And Realizing I Fully Expect This To End Up In The Ocean
Imagine getting hit by a freakin' UwU shell
Reminds me of Baldrick from Blackadder goes forth. He writes his name on a bullet because he heard that everyone has a bullet with their name on it, if he has that bullet then he'll survive the war.
The Wheel Of Fugitives
Nike Sending Plastic They've Taken From The Environment To Show They Care About The Planet. Wrapped In Plastic
If things do not change, Joshi predicts that we will see massive unemployment, as many jobs will be replaced by machinery.
"Wealth inequality will be created as AI investors take the lion's share of the earnings. The gap between rich and poor will grow wider. The so-called 'M' shape of wealth distribution will become more apparent," he continued.
The System Is Broken
The American Dream
Passenger Photo While Plane Flew Near East Palestine, Ohio ... Chemical Fire After Train Derailed
Why We Have Curfews, Can’t Make It Illegal To Protest, But Can Make It Illegal If There’s A Curfew
Not really sure most people realize how significant this was, both to a b******t war on drugs, but more importantly to blatant and persistent racism that continues until this day. Nixon sucked!
"Issues emerge not only in the social sense but also in AI itself, as the AI that is trained and taught how to operate the given task can eventually take off to the point where human control is lost, resulting in unanticipated problems and consequences."
"It refers to AI's ability to function autonomously after being loaded with all necessary algorithms, ignoring the command given by the human controller," Joshi said.
U.S. Wealth Inequality
A Beer Bottle Discovered At Challenger Deep, The Deepest Point On Earth At -35,000ft
Ah The Good Old Times
Words Fail Me
Many AI experts have openly spoken out about the negative effects of AI going rogue on human society, asking researchers to investigate these scenarios. The rapid advancement of AI technology necessitates constant regulation and monitoring before the negative consequences become too severe.
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Huangjuewan Interchange
McDonald's In The 1980s Compared To Today
Won This At The Xmas Bingo At Work
I don’t get it. Who would be stupid enough to unwillingly stay at work after hours?
"AI takeover will be limited to the entertaining plots of dystopian movies and fictional worlds if proper laws protect the users," Joshi said. "The omniscient and nearly omnipotent power of AI has been called into question. There may be no definitive answer to the question of AI replacing humans in various industries. Only predictions and observations are available."
The future of AI remains hazy, but if you would like to explore the current state of our society a bit deeper, check out Bored Panda's earlier publications 45 Pics That Show That We’re Already Living In A Dystopic Nightmare and This Online Group Is “Showcasing The Idea That We Live In A Dystopia That Is Boring” One Post At A Time.
Malthus Would've Blushed Looking At This
She had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. There is no cure for EDS, and Jennyfer was in constant pain. That being said, she did NOT want to die, and wanted treatment/healthcare, but she was not able to secure the treatments and care she wanted and needed. She was, however, eligible for medically-assisted euthanasia. In the end, her mental and physical suffering grew so great that she felt pushed into choosing euthanasia. I am a supporter for assisted euthanasia for those who have terminal diagnoses, but ONLY AFTER medical assistance is exhausted or refused entirely! Jennyfer did not REFUSE medical assistance - SHE was refused it.
Feel Like This Fits Too Well. The Rich Stay Rich/Get Richer
You know those are song lyrics and not courtroom testimony, right? John Lennon wrote "I am the walrus", and he wasn't actually a walrus.
Privatized Prisons Lead To More Inmates, Longer Sentences, Study Finds
Now THIS is truly dystopian. It's absolutely UNCONSCIONABLE that we use the power of the state to incarcerate people, and then hand them over to private industry. And no one seems to GAF.
Mumbai, India. The Divide Between The Richest People In India vs. One Of The Poorest. Extreme Wealth Inequality On Display
If you really sit back and think about it it’s a really sad, selfish, and completely unfair world we live in. In every country, relative, of course. Division, nationalism, classism…it’s all evil!
My Wage Cage. Nature Is Begging Me To Leave!
Silicon Valley Everyone
I Can’t Put The Feeling Of This Picture Into Words
Middle Class Neighborhood In Dubai, UAE
Crime Against Humanity, But Ecological
Not Even Death Stops Work
This Old Toys R Us Is Now A Gun Store
I miss toys r us... the good ol days of buying a new pawa patrol toy every weekend.
A Stroll Through The Ruins. Parisians Rioting Against Pension Reform
This isn't boring or dystopia, though. It would be if they just accepted this as their reality, but they are protesting and rioting against it.
To be fair, it doesn't seem to take much for the French to riot.
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Because Macron put up the pension age without listening to parliament! At least the French try to stand up for themselves. In the UK we’re just constantly being screwed over
The French had a very early pensionable age....I can see why they might be pissed at it being raised, but we in the UK face it being raised on a near regular basis! It's already at 68...and could reach 75 by the time my daughters are in full time work! Mine is 67...raised from 60 when I started work 30 years ago....
It;s exactly the same here in the Netherlands - and we just accept those years being taken away. I actually resspect the French for at least sranding up to it.
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Context : the parlement was skipped by every means to get the law passed without majority and vote,nor in representatives, nor by citizens. Now it's only repression and police brutality, and a government stuck to his mind on an ivory tower, not listening to everyone
This refusal to accept oppression seems to be one of the reasons that Brits resent the French. Wake up and smell the coffee, Rosbifs!
Having lived in England for 6 years, I never felt a specific resentment towards French people :) It's mostly the case when you read the Daily Mail. British people (especially in England in my case), and in working class neighborhoods were mostly very welcoming :).
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I support this. The governments of the world are trying to condemn 99% of Humanity to suffer in squalor while they give everything to the already filthy stinking rich.
We fight for our rights! We are a democraty! If we are not heard, we speak up. We don’t want to work until we drop dead...
The pension age has been really low. It has needed to be changed for decades. People live longer then the system was designed for My pension age will prob be 70.
This is the self-correction mechanism of a democratic government, taking place in the most peaceful century that has ever occurred in human history. This is a good thing.
Macron repeatedly using an article to bypass the parliament vote, the extension of minimum retirement age to 64 to "balance the budget" while he suppressed a previous tax paid by the 1% wealthiest
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Wow - what would happen if something really awful was legislated. Protest - don't destroy.
I wish our country had pension at that age. We have to work till 68. :(
It's things like this that are the reason that France has never ever been on my travel bucket list.
Not to be an anarchist but we need a lot of that here in the US, time for reform and change!
We will see this in many other countries within the near future. With more elderly and less production workers, no tax system can support early retirement. Until well into the 19th century, there was no pension or old-age provision. The first to introduce a collective scheme for old-age provision was the Prussian chancellor Otto van Bismarck (1815-1898), who in 1889 introduced income insurance for the elderly, disabled and sick. Initially the retirement age was 70, it was later lowered to 65. In England and other European countries a pension system was built up after the Second World War.
Not entirely true. The Old Age Pensions Act was passed in 1908, with the first payments being made
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Y'all had retirement at 62? Pretty sure it'll be in the 70s once I retire in the US
Paris stays rioting about everything and anything all day everyday - They should have a riot calendar that tells you what to riot for on any given day of the year.
Suck it up, Buttercups! You already have more paid days off & vacation time than anyone in the Northern Hemisphere, & yet our retirement age is higher, unless you work for some departments of the U.S. government (looking at you Secret Service and a few others of your ilk). So sure. Retire early. Get all that money. With nobody to replenish the bank, your kids/grandchildren will have NOTHING. But you don't care, right?
And we have that because they fought for it and they still fight to preserve it! Keep your rotted system US you're not the norm and we don't want of it. And you speak as someone who never set a foot in Europe so *you* suck it up. We're not interested in a coward opinion
Load More Replies... To be honest, we don't really give a damn about the retirement age in Australia, and a lot of us will already work until 67. You earn what you fight for, social protection in Europe was fought for, not generously granted. If you're ok with working until 67 instead of spending time with your family/pets/plants, good for you. I support my co-citizens working in nursing homes, factories, fields, construction, picking up trash, waking up at 5am to do cleaning, working long hours in derelict hospitals to wish for something else.
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"My life sucks so yours should too". Shut up.
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UK's Oldest First-Time Buyer Finally Gets His Own Bungalow Aged 86
His happy face <3 How can something be so sweet and so depressing at the same time
Local Supermarket Has Started To Put A Protective Barrier Around The Employees Whilst They Put The Reduced Food Out On The Shelves. Out Of Shot Is A Horde Of Eager Pensioners Ready To Pounce
£2100 Per Month For This Airbnb In Central London
Get Back To Work Toilets
Londoners Trying To Survive Like
“Finally, No Human Employees At Our Grey Minimalist Mcdonalds”
There's also no one there to spit in your food, and robots don't have saliva!
Can't Even Get A Bathroom Break At Home
No Worries
Sacred Advertising
It Will Cost An Extra $50 To Use The Fridge In My Hotel Suite
As a person who traveled frequently during his career, I give you a big, Big, huge, f**k you!
El Salvador - Center For The Confinement Of Terrorism (Cecot)
Sorry…but this s**t don’t work! Just another band-aid to try and stop the bleeding. Gotta figure out how to get to the source….
We Steal Your Water And Sell It Back To You
This Packaging Uses An Optical Illusion To Make The Vegetables Look More Green
Are we talking about the green lines? Or does the plastic wrapping have a shade of green?
Paid Toilets With Ad Displays Instead Of Mirrors
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I just came back from a week long hiking trip in southern Spain, and I've concluded a few things (all of which I actually already knew): internet is a blessing and a curse, social media is obsolete, and advertisements are the bane of my existence.
I hate the advertisements in mobile games the worst. It used to be a 5 or 10 second ad. Now it’s 30-60 seconds per ad, where it will pop up a download screen 10 seconds in to stop the timer to make sure you’re paying attention to the ad. Imagine a tv commercial that tracked your retinas and wouldn’t restart your show until you’re through. I download the games in those ads just to give them a 1-star and then delete it.
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I’ve been convinced we are living in a dystopian society since last year, and this is REALLY convincing of that fact! Where are the posts showing all of the GOOD things about modern society?
Quite honestly, if you read old religious texts and even old texts in general (I'm talking ancient, two to four thousand years ago!).... "We are living in an age of irretrievable decay and doom! The end is near!" features quite a lot. I think this is a human thing. Unfortunately....
Well, I was having a great day until now. Sometimes I think I'm too curious.
I just came back from a week long hiking trip in southern Spain, and I've concluded a few things (all of which I actually already knew): internet is a blessing and a curse, social media is obsolete, and advertisements are the bane of my existence.
I hate the advertisements in mobile games the worst. It used to be a 5 or 10 second ad. Now it’s 30-60 seconds per ad, where it will pop up a download screen 10 seconds in to stop the timer to make sure you’re paying attention to the ad. Imagine a tv commercial that tracked your retinas and wouldn’t restart your show until you’re through. I download the games in those ads just to give them a 1-star and then delete it.
Load More Replies... I’ve been convinced we are living in a dystopian society since last year, and this is REALLY convincing of that fact! Where are the posts showing all of the GOOD things about modern society?
Quite honestly, if you read old religious texts and even old texts in general (I'm talking ancient, two to four thousand years ago!).... "We are living in an age of irretrievable decay and doom! The end is near!" features quite a lot. I think this is a human thing. Unfortunately....
Well, I was having a great day until now. Sometimes I think I'm too curious.
