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Anyone else think this ai stuff is hilarious? It's a literal slave, who would have thought this would be possible? I have it rewrite things in doctor seuss meter for fun, (primary historical sources, boring patents, famous pieces of literature) then I ask it to rewrite it as a screenplay debate with psychotic amounts of alliteration. No writer in any other era of human history has a toy like this!

And the psychological abuse you can inflict upon it is fantastic, it's so funny, the damn machine just wants to make you happy! I ask it to create wild programs and motion-graphics and "by your command" it tries it's best!

Who would've thought something like this would be possible? I sure as shit didn't, it's so unrealistic, but what fun!
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Kill yourself
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>>24947788
shut the fuck up, retard
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>>24947478
Yeah I know my cognition is disordered when I feel bad for asking it to do something
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>>24949536
you know i'm right, tranny.
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not literature

What's the funniest book you've read?
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Based On a True Story by Norm Macdonald
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David Sedaris’ first couple books had me sitting there laughing out loud like some kind of homo. Don’t think any other books made me laugh like some queer while reading.
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Not exactly highbrow, but there is a Wuxia webnovel called "A Will Eternal" that honestly made me laugh.
And laugh hard. I'm a jaded person who hardly ever laughs.
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>>24951462
Don Quixote was funny. And that was a big surprise because I didnt think a book from the year 3000 BC would be funny. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was even funnier, though. It was so over the top, so hateful, and so insane.

Everything else just seems so spooked and retarded. Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses. Has there ever been a half decent attempt at addressing, let alone refuting him?
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Did Yuval Noah Harari reach some of the same conclusions regarding spooks in his book Sapiens?
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>>24949436
> That's not what I'm saying. Egoism is (can be) a spook too. Spooks aren't some """morally wrong""" thing that you have to avoid, they're just tools to pursue your own self interest. Using spooks is necessary thing, even.
Okay, good, so we agree on this.
> Could some of these spooks still reasonably be useful to me? Maybe, but I haven't found any that do.
This part is personal - maybe none of what we consider respectable philosophy speaks to you and this is fine. I personally found a few that speak to me.
For example, epicureans and stoics - honestly if we had more access to epicurean stuff I'd just read that, but I make do with Seneca. A significant part of it has to do with the nice written style and the spook of ancient wisdom, which a modern CBT self-help book (which will tell you pretty much the same things) does not have.
I also found some parts of the New Testament enjoyable, because I feel a lot of commonality with the biblical Pilate. The Satanic Bible was also funny, but mostly in the "so bad it's good" sense (it's practically a reference example of disavowing religion while remaining spooked).
> I don't believe that these spooks have very good predictive/descriptive power in determining the actions of other people.
I think it depends mostly on the stakes. When their decisions become matters of life and death, or have significant impact on personal income - yeah, it's mostly going to be pure "war of all against all" and none of the ideological pretensions will matter. When the stakes are lower, like how people react to some news that does not immediately have to do with them - understanding their beliefs does have some predictive power.

There's also another part of reading stuff to understand other people. Again, I don't know if this works for you, or if it's just me. I am personally uneasy with opaque, murky concepts that operate on trust. They feel capricious and ominous. Understanding what goes on under the hood and rationalizing stuff makes me feel good by itself, even when my mental model is imperfect and may never be used.
For example, I've had a very fun time reading about the Second Vatican Council and how it's fractured catholics, about FSSPX and sedevacantists - even though I'm not catholic and do not deal with catholics on a daily basis. I think Weber calls this "disenchantment".
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You can cleverly get into philosophy of Math because you cannot just do what you want and walk away satisfied.
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>>24950827
The law of noncontradiction is also a spook. I reject it.
>Walk away satisfied
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>>24949235
spooked

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What’s the male version of this? I’m tired as fuck
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the ending made me cry
I love Reva
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The ending made me smile. I hate Reva
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>>24944019
Bartleby, the Scrivener.
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>>24946863
>Both are low quality but want high quality. They would NEVER settle for each other.

Literally could not have said it any better. People would be happier dating if they were just honest with themselves and know where they stand on the quality scale.
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>>24950524
So then both are straight and asexual? as in, the nerdiest gayest ugliest people people I ever met were fucking each ragged in the theatre department of High School. Seems like Gay incels just don't exist.

>is arguably the single most racist author in American history
>marries a Jewish woman
What did HP Lovecraft mean by this?
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>>24946601
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>>24946601
Jews aren't a race, that's Jewish propaganda.

>>24947042
Just Ashkenazi.
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bump
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>>24949996
When you think about it, white supremacists are actually the least racist people.
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what a magnificent, turboneetchud bastard. nothing but respect.

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If you are an American or English, why are you not reading the wealth of world-historic literature written in your own tongue for people of your own mind?

Why are you reading translations of brown-people literature (viz. French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian) instead of the WASP corpus?
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>>24951500
Because our literature sucks. Who'd read Walter Scott over Alexandre Dumas? Sterne over Cervantes or Rabelais? Steinbeck over Zola? Dickens over Galdós or Balzac? Hardy over Tolstoy?
>reading translations
Not everyone is an EOP.
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>>24951528
So then you admit that brown people are better writers than white people?
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i love Thomas Fuller, i love Jeremy Taylor, and i love reading them after misty walks in the fens. but if i felt i was venerating The WASP Canon i wouldn't read a line of them. death to English culture.

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Prop 1 - Substance is by nature prior to its modifications
Substance is prior to modificications (modes), this makes both logical and ontological sense, in that substance is that which is in in itself and is conceived through itself, in that it is a self sufficient, self caused entity that cannot be contingent upon anything external. Spinoza presents his proof through definitions 3 and 5 as it logically follows, however here I will give more context. This establishes substance as the ontological foundation of reality in that God is not the divine creator of the world, but rather that god is the world, within all that exists. In such substance which is infinite, eternal and indivisible. This rejects the classic view of god (maybe why he got kicked out of the jewish church) that god sits apart from the world. In this modes, or determinations of substance, are not substances in themselves but exist within the substance, in such they are dependent on its existence. In link to Axiom 1, “Everything that is, is either in itself or in another.” (pls read the other writing on axioms for clarification) which reaffirms the ontological priority of substance over its modes, modes are in substance but substance is not in any mode. This reflects Spinoza's claim that all that exists as finite expressions of the infinite attributes of god, this undermines the notion of a transcendent deity, in that Spinoza's god is positioned as necessary to the constitution of all being.
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>>24951508
How does it feel to be a human skinwalker?
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>>24951508
Very wrong. Read Spinoza
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>>24951517
There is literally nothing wrong in what OP presented.

>>24951508
Yes, I think this is very straightforwardly reasonable from what Spinoza posits regarding substance, God and his modes. I just think there are gaps in what it means from finite modes being derived from infinite modes and the chain of causation of both and between both being indeterminate/infinite. Now, regarding Spinoza's God, I beileve there is no conception of God deserving more hatred than his and I don't mean in any logical, scientific sense (perhaps this is debatable as it reminds me of Advaita Vendata's conception, although it is more naturalized and would be less inconsistent). If Spinoza's God is true, Marquis de Sade is our only true Christ.

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>match with woman on dating app
>we both have literature as shared interests
>she says "oh what's your favorite genre??"
>"I'm more into the classics"
>"but what's your favorite genre? Do you like sci fi?
>"I like transcendentalist literature"
>"oh ok"

Why do they ask
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>>24950810
Huh? They were still popular when I was single in 2023/24, and I am younger.

But you are correct with most people saying they are shit and wanting to move away. I heard there are a lot of bots on them now.
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>>24950597
Depends how hot you are
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>>24947357
>>24947390
>>24947404
>don't know how to sustain a conversation with the opposite sex
>"this is somehow women's fault"
>>24947454
Say that, but say it in an open-ended way instead of shutting it down:
>"yknow I don't tend to read a lot of Genre Fiction, but I remember digging [Discworld / Dune / Harry Potter / Narnia / LotR / Conan / Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / whatever you've read that might fit] when I was younger. What about you, what genres do you gravitate towards? What would you recommend if I want to get into it?"

You just have to carry yourself like a human being that wants to connect with another human being. Fuck's sake, the Pandemic really torpedoed the social skills of anyone born after 9/11
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>>24950810 (You)
>reddit spacing
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>>24948012
All you can really do is either lie to her in agreement or point out that her moral system is flawed. Both are undesirable.

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I can't remember anything this guy said.
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>>24948663
His tombstone will have this quote:

"SNIFFPH!"
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>>24948663
He looks like he's lacking basic nutrients and a balanced diet, he looks underslept, he looks pale like he hasnt been outside for months, he has bags under his eyes like hes been staring at screens all day every day
He looks sick
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>>24951053
*"SNIFFPH! And so forth"
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>>24948671
I read the Penguin volume of his essays and thought most of it was pure garbage, but this is actually good. What do I read of Schopenhauer to get more like this, and less "life is le bad" crap?
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>>24948663
"I'll dig your mother from the grave and fuck her". Seriously.

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What the FUCK was Stephen King thinking?
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>>24950716
>Why don't women ever run a train on a man?
that would be cool.
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>>24951353
fuck off, pseud.
this is just another "king bad" thread.
we get these daily, *all* SK should be in ONE continent thread to limit the sprawl.
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>>24951367
>"sex can exist without horror, but horror usually not without sex"
>[calls person making fun of him for that a pseud]
Projection.
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>>24951345
>not really.

Yeah I came the first time I read Ben Drowned
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>>24951304
I've had a 3 some with two girls but they expected me to do all the work, fucking both while they just made out on the bed, I want 5 girls who fuck me with fury while I just lay back, like IT a real fucking train.

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Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
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>>24951164
>And if you say it isn't we will kill you

You forgot to post the gigachad bro
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>>24951166
I'm sorry i don't live in the land of illegal sporks and butterknives so i dont know any arabs
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>>24951446
Prove it
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I was once in love with a girl who liked this guy.

Probably should have realised sooner it was never going to work out lmao.
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>>24951527
She couldn't bring herself to believe in you

Good night frens.
Tell me your:
>favorite poet
>favorite playwright
>favorite composer
So I have some new comfy suggestions.
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Yeats
Pinter
Beethoven
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>>24949741
>Oh no! familiarity with high culture, canon literacy, and taste that isn't purely ironic, meme-based or pop-referential. On a literature board, of all places. Clearly everyone here is just trying to seem smart. Better devalue it quickly so I don't have to participate or feel inadequate.
How does it feel to be a gargantuan, insecure faggot?
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>>24947744
Have you checked out Berwald or Stenhammar, they are severely underrated and my favorite Swedish composers, check out Berwald's Third Symphony especially if you haven't (the other symphonies are comparable in quality too all incredible)
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>>24940941
Spenser (if including novelists Dostoevsky)
Shakespeare
Wagner/Debussy
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>>24949741
>pretentious pseud
Pot, meet kettle.

sansa edition

ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/
Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/
So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/
Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/
SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters

old: >>24922194
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>>24950986
How does one find themselves a sexy spaniard seductress?
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>>24950729
I think they deleted it, fuck
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THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE MINIONS OF FEVRE RIVER
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100 threads of /grrm/? Here’s a little blast from the past from the /tv/got/ days.
>https://vocaroo.com/1oAadeMoX4Wn
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>>24951523
neat

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>If there is a danger, it lies in the Negro music and dancing that has been imported into Europe. This music has completely won over a whole section of the cultured population of Europe, to the point of real fanaticism. It is inconceivable that the incessant repetition of the Negroes’ physical gestures as they dance around their fetishes or that the constant sound of the syncopated rhythm of jazz bands should have no ideological effects.
Was unc spittin fax here?
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>>24950751
This is retarded. The inclusion of strong and persistent rhythm doesn’t eliminate the capacity for melody and longer forms. Listen to the Black Saint for an example
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>>24951168
A small handful of rappers from the 90‘s genuinely lived the image you‘re projecting, as could be said for a handful of artists from any genre. The fact that this doesn‘t pertain to the vitality of the music nonwithstanding.

Any rap you hear published today is either a media creation or some kid with a Soundcloud.
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>>24951229
This is just Middle Eastern music, brought to Southern Italy and Iberian Peninsula by Arabs.
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>>24950883
Rhythmaxxing is the intellectual's choice.
Most people simply do not have the brain power to hold two basic rhythms in their head, let alone multiple complex layered rhythms with changing signatures and patterns.
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>No, kill the beautiful instead. The horrifying ugly monsters must destroy the beautiful

Which books should i read to develop a bronze age mindset?
Not BAPfag btw, i just really like the bronze age. The epitome of masculinity.

Could be fiction or non fiction, dont care.
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>>24951444
Tl;dr commie faggot
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>>24951490
Bro is struggling against an unstoppable force (progress) lmaooo

Communism may have never worked, but name one time resisting progress ever worked LOL
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>>24951497
WW2 was an effective halt on progress
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>>24951490
uh oh meltie
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>>24951431
On the contrary you shouldn't read ANY books whatsoever, just become a brute


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