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A satire of leftism? I’d call it too obvious but look how popular it is.
A satire of leftism? I’d call it too obvious but look how popular it is.
Bostich pneumatic nailgun
(I build fences)
It’s like magic powers. And beats the heck out of renting. I keep it dusted and oiled in a special canvas bag.
Maybe if it’s unreliable.
Maybe if it cannot be reliably connected to real stuff.
Maybe if consuming it brings with it a threat. A virus or something
Object recognition.
Then “action recognition”. I mean, what the objects are doing. To each other and such.
Then you have a narration machine. Which could be nice.
There’s a drug that permanently destroys the part of your brain that creates empathy. I’m planning to become a cannibal.
USA seems rather barbaric in that light
Science is the process by which scientific knowledge is discovered? That’s a tight little loop.
One famous scientist described science as “looking at stuff and talking about it”.
The key concept here is belief without understanding.
Which isn’t an entirely bad thing of course, to have an authority that you respect, believe and obey.
But maybe there’s a line there.
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Hmm. Good idea.
Speaking of which, what authors have done scifi/fantasy with afterlives and such?
Philip Jose Farmer. Zelazny. Silverberg. Egan. A million authors over at Royal Road…
Probably a Matrix situation. Self-cultivation brings superpowers. Kindness is just a visible facet of that cultivation
I remember a thing from Greek mythology.
In the afterlife you encounter a forest. The trees are people, locked in eternal catatonia, each a private hell inside his own mind.
Rather than tolerate a painful situation, reroll.
Oh ya. And probably a hundred other kinds of carryover.
Well in theory all of the religious elements are not religious elements. We just haven’t demonstrated them to our satisfaction. (which I suppose is the line between bullshit and not-bullshit right there)
Like, if we forgot how to make particle accelerators And the only talk of quarks and leptons was in religious mythology.
Soul tracking, for property and credit purposes. We’d invent that a week later.
Yes, how silly that would be.
I was over at 4chan looking at some really fucked up videos the other day. Yes, it left a mark in my head. Yes, I’m thinking of not looking at that stuff anymore.