"Have you tried turning suffering off?" X user mocks EA's endless genre of naive objections
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-19
The author complains that roughly a third of his timeline is a recognizable genre of tweet accusing EA of never considering some issue it has debated ad nauseam—one that just isn't fundamental enough to lead the Wikipedia page. He responds with a sarcastic jab about 'fixing suffering by turning it off or unplugging it,' poking fun at the genre of framing common ideas as novel insights.
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