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Everyone will reconcile in love.
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gwap posted:

the new president of georgia went to udc lol. dunno why that is stupid/crazy, just funny i gues



you mean the old president that got installed via a coup

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Love is violent
#44
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god exists and loves us unconditionally
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Kurdt
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same, except it's communism
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Poronto
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doesn't have to be crazy to be stupid
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D.C.
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lmao. OP, where did you cp this shit, another post-lf ghetto, tumblr, or gbs?
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nuMbA B1tcH
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the nipponese govt. was behind the okc bombing
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i didnt even know okcupid was bombed
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Panopticon posted:

i didnt even know okcupid was bombed

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speaking of okcupid and crazy theories, i believe that if i am honest and truthful, and accurately describe myself and my personality, girls will want to date me
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TG posted:

speaking of okcupid and crazy theories, i believe that if i am honest and truthful, and accurately describe myself and my personality, girls will want to date me



worked for me!

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the ability to lie is at the foundation of love, therefore i have decided to learn to lie.
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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that an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market results in the most optimally efficient distribution of wealth and resources
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Bureaucracy/information systems are an actual, albeit memetically based, entity breeding more of itself and living off humans labour/information as substrate. A friendly-AI technological singularity is impossible, as the dominant system has no inherent need for humans. The only sensible resistance is anti-civ/tech.
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i dont think ai is possible in the singularitarian sense. it's taken 70 million years to get a human brain from a mouse brain, and mouse brains are much more complex than a modern supercomputer
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Panopticon posted:

i dont think ai is possible in the singularitarian sense. it's taken 70 million years to get a human brain from a mouse brain, and mouse brains are much more complex than a modern supercomputer



I'm not a singularitarian. If a "singularity" does emerge it won't be conscious, but still potentially threatening to human life. The reason I mention it is that it's sometimes put forward as the utopian justification and possible salvation from the crazy information system we are engulfed in at the moment. I don't believe any political system has an answer as the information system is beyond that and concerned only with replicating itself. Human information/labour is substrate, any Marxist utopia you envision still relies on it. It will continue replicating itself; currently symbiotically with capitalism and in the future likewise until eventually it overtakes and we become subservient to it if not irrelevant/extinct.

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not my theory but this felt like the most appropriate thread to share this. there was a glitch on tumblr leading to the termination of many accounts a cople days ago, and while no one knew what was going on people were trying to figure out what they all had in common, like they thought tumblr animewave communists were being silenced, people were literally saying that it was a Red Scare and that reddit fascists hacked tumblr to delete accounts they didnt agree with, lol
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God i hope so
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well cyberpunk predictions have so far turned out to be largely correct, so it wouldn't surprise me if a more complex version of the scary-AI destroys humanity argument turns out to be correct. obviously gradually and such. but then we might run out of oil/power before that happens.
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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NoFreeWill posted:

well cyberpunk predictions have so far turned out to be largely correct, so it wouldn't surprise me if a more complex version of the scary-AI destroys humanity argument turns out to be correct. obviously gradually and such. but then we might run out of oil/power before that happens.



relax. any sufficiently advanced AI would be supremely and inerrantly rational and thus, marxist

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Superabound posted:

NoFreeWill posted:

well cyberpunk predictions have so far turned out to be largely correct, so it wouldn't surprise me if a more complex version of the scary-AI destroys humanity argument turns out to be correct. obviously gradually and such. but then we might run out of oil/power before that happens.



relax. any sufficiently advanced AI would be supremely and inerrantly rational and thus, marxist


Anything inerrantly rational couldn't be marxist or political in any form.

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i like the idea of a marxist supercomputer guiding society as a halfway point between DOTP and pure communism sorta
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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swirlsofhistory posted:

Anything inerrantly rational couldn't be marxist or political in any form.



well then i guess your best bet is to placate and ingratiate yourself to the machines by striving to emulate them in every way, which im already getting a head start on by refusing to have sex, make human eye contact, or not be atheist

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TG posted:

speaking of okcupid and crazy theories, i believe that if i am honest and truthful, and accurately describe myself and my personality, girls will want to date me




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political car tune
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roseweird posted:

cyberpunk didn't predict anything, it just described in the 90s what had already happened in the 70s and 80s, but with the kind of aesthetics easily inhabited by people like keanu reeves and that would dominate the 00s until we came to be embarrassed by them by the 10s

disco and leg warmers? yah riigteht

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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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leg warmers never stopped being sexy
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objekt-a.tumblr.com
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Lykourgos posted:

The_Schliski posted:

the secret to really good eggs is just to use a shitload of butter

egg



Lykourgos posted:

The_Schliski posted:

the secret to really good eggs is just to use a shitload of butter

ouch, yeah, this is a very important and tempting theory. Yet, think of it this way: when you fry those runny eggs and plonk them down on some toast, break the yolk and taste it. The deliciousness of the warm goo is distinct from the flavour of the butter, especially when you consider the tomato sauce on top. Proof positive that while butter might enhance the flavour of a good breakfast, it isn't responsible for its greatness. Still, runny eggs are one of the greatest foodstuffs imaginable, and butter doesn't hurt; for my part I cook the eggs in a spot of olive oil.





egg?

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objekt-a.tumblr.com
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Crow posted:

What if the matrix was about pizza



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meet me in st louis
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reggaelolita posted:

i like the idea of a marxist supercomputer guiding society as a halfway point between DOTP and pure communism sorta



http://www.amazon.com/Red-Plenty-Francis-Spufford/dp/1555976042/ref=sr_sp-atf_image_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383374126&sr=8-1&keywords=red+plenty

theres been a few papers remarking on the computational plausibility of it.

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Mike Nelson here.
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hmm. stupid ideas i have. hmm. well today i bought an iphone and joined an anarchist organization.
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Kurdt
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http://www.rhizzone.net/article/2011/12/05/stafford-beer-and-salvador-allendes-internet-and-d/
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meet me in st louis
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im trying to think of a new dark matter detection experiment thats easy to theorize and will give me the same negative result of any other one
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roseweird posted:

cyberpunk didn't predict anything, it just described in the 90s what had already happened in the 70s and 80s, but with the kind of aesthetics easily inhabited by people like keanu reeves and that would dominate the 00s until we came to be embarrassed by them by the 10s



although i do remember bruce sterling anticipating bin laden's further importance i also remember him writing some of the worst books in the world, so there's that

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reggaelolita posted:

i like the idea of a marxist supercomputer guiding society as a halfway point between DOTP and pure communism sorta


http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/918.html

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palafox posted:

although i do remember bruce sterling anticipating bin laden's further importance i also remember him writing some of the worst books in the world, so there's that



disinfo had a bunch of good articles on bin laden back around 97/98