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Louis CK Everything is amazing & Nobody is happy

Marjo Duiveman · 2M views · 2011-07-20 · 5:50

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A Louis C.K. appearance on Conan in which he argues that everything is amazing and nobody is happy, riffing on how quickly people take modern technology for granted.

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HN posts it as a joke reply whenever people complain about technology, airlines, or AI that would have seemed miraculous not long ago.

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jcims · 2025-10 · Joke / meme

Isn't this just the human condition at work? [VIDEO] Fast forward a hundred years when we have a holodeck and sooner or later everyone will get bored with it.

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nothrabannosir · 2025-08 · Joke / meme

Louis CK did a bit on this: [VIDEO] :) My point isn’t that other people shouldn’t be amazed, it’s that I see this recurring assumption they aren’t. How do you know the people holding LLMs to higher standards aren’t also the same people who herald the dawn of a new AI era? Emphasis in the text you quoted: “saying”, not “thinking”.

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jjulius · 2024-12 · Joke / meme

Following HN's guidelines, I'm going to assume that you're a pretty smart person who knows that our northern/southern hemispheres mean that there are only two options for when summer occurs, and when winter occurs, and that they're essentially just opposites of one another. If you're reading it from a southern hemisphere viewpoint and find that it doesn't make sense, isn't it quite simple to just go, "Oh, perhaps it's the opposite?" and apply that? This is hardly the first time I've ever encountered this sort of thing. In fact, as an American, I've had to employ this sort of thinking myself when interacting with people on forums from places like South America and Australia. It's an easy fix, and it's not that big of a deal, honestly - an innocent little side effect of the fact that we're able to communicate at such a global level[1]. :) [1] [VIDEO]

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