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  "channel_slug": "singularity",
  "channel_handle": "r/singularity",
  "title": "What is with the futurology sub?",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ut1cgs/what_is_with_the_futurology_sub/",
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  "upload_date": "20260710",
  "published_at": "2026-07-10T21:50:25+00:00",
  "transcript": "Its a miserable wasteland. Everything is met with doomerism and an attack on something they have a gripe with. Kind of disappointing with what people could imagine and its just people trying to ruin each other's day.\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[65 upvotes] Too many people think being cynical or insufferable makes them sound smart\n\n[40 upvotes] Same with r/technology, very little discussion regarding technology going on there. \n\n[33 upvotes] Reddit is a consensus aggregator and the consensus on anything new is generally that it is bad. It's just human nature in response to something new. When your audience goes from a small slice of the population to a large one, it approaches the statistical norm, which is that new things = bad and the world is ending. \n\n[15 upvotes] AI is the first technology in most people's lifespan that makes \"the future\" actually possible while they are still alive.  But of course it's going to cause mass disruption how could it not.  \n\nIf tomorrow someone invented antigravity the futurology sub would be full of people lamenting the uselessness of their existing car, whining about imminent truck and taxi driver job losses, complaining about lights overhead from traffic of new antigravity vehicles, going to their local governments and trying to get them made illegal - \"no hovering over us\", making up fake health concerns \"graviton radiation causes cancer!\", etc.",
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  "ingested_at": "2026-07-11T01:30:25.302943+00:00",
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    "author": "International_Bee653",
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