One of the best philosophy book I've read in a while, but the way it has been received and it's talked about among the public (including the /lit/ one) testifies to the absolute lack of reading comprehension of the current average person. This is what happens when you destroy canonical reading in universities for centuries: that people will approach a reasonable and rather polite philosophical text such as Fanged Noumena and perceive it as if it were some sort of theoretical eldritch abomination. Had you properly studied the Critique of Pure Reason, Being and Time and some Nietzsche, this would be entirely intelligble to you, I assure you. And again, it would not sound at all "apocalyptic" or "weird", but rather polite and reasonable, in the sense in which a conversation is reasonable and polite. The problem is that for about forty years we seem to have forgotten how to properly converse with philosophers - that is, in a challenging, creative, deep way, connecting seemingly unrelated concepts - while Land did not.
>>24947111Meltdown is his most famous essay I'd say. It's a fun read too.
I'm not reading Land, no matter how hard you keep shilling him here.
>>24947103>Had you properly studied the Critique of Pure Reason, Being and Time and some Nietzsche, this would be entirely intelligble to you, I assure you. Yes, you would see through Land as puffed up sophism.
Posting a Land thread should result in a range ban.
>>24947103>Classics>Heidegger >NEETcheEven more ironic that both those figures horribly misrepresent the classical tradition for their shitty modernist projects. THEY are in fact prime targets for the charge of destroying the West.
So I realised that I don't even know the order of the planets in our solar system. Figured I should at least read SOME book on astronomy. It is however quite hard to separate the wheat from the chaff as it seems that any idiot with access to wikipedia has made a shitty book on the subject.tl;dr: any recommendations for books on (very) basic astronomy?
>>24946299The earth is flat and stationary with a dome.
>>24946299Give this a read eventually. It examines the development of astronomy and how and why the Copernican model took hold. It's helpful because it explains what you would see if you were to study the night sky with just your naked eye and no preconceptions.
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>>24946299I like Isaac Asimov's pop astronomy writings if you want light reading instead of proper (math heavy) astronomy
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Any tips for being a creative writer on 3 hours of sleep a night? I quit drinking three years ago and I can't sleep more than 3 hours a night unless I get wasted. It's all because of my doctor (picrel) who prescribed me benzos when he knew I was drinking as 12 pack every night. Google him, his name is David Pickar and he was on Oprah
Learn to write in the dark. Are you sure that heavy use of electronic screens before bed isn't a factor in your staying up late hours?
>>24947097He looks jewish
>>24947125he is
>>24947118Ever since I quit drinking and got a traumatic brain injury at the same time I have been unable to sleep more than three hours a night without alcohol, and I've tried everything people recommend
Best book to understand the AI phenomenon in depth, mathematical precision, and comprehensive detail?
>>24945877Masters in political science, slotted for intel work to the side of political theory hobbies. What do you know and can recommend on the future of AI integration into governance and national security?
>>24945877basically i want to build an uncensored intelligent chatbot for loneliness purposes
This will tell you how all those cool ai models work: https://keras.io/examples/In order to actually understand it you should also read some introduction to fitting neural networks, which you will find somewhere on the internet on a university's homepage. A little bit of math beyond high school level helps but isn't strictly necessary.
>>24947098If a big tech investor went out of his way to understand how these AI models work, would he short or double down on his investments?
>>24947109Even if a billionaire ai investor reads the latest ai papers for breakfast he still can't reliably predict the future of ai. Maybe it will soon replace all human intellectual work or maybe the technology will get stuck and remain the fun but not very useful curiosity it is now. I personally think that ai will be cheap and most ai startups will fail because the technology is so open and everyone can setup their own cheap service.
Continuing to read Goethe's Italian Journey, I've just finished up the section where he's in Venice. It's amazing how enchanted he is with the place. Having been to Venice myself, I suppose I can agree with him.I do think it's funny that it's 1786 and he's complaining about the garbage in the streets and how there's disgusting sewage that floods the walkways of the city at high tide. 240 years later nothing has changed.He also remarks on how Venice has diminished, that its power from its days of glory is weaker, and the whole Republic has begun to decay. I suppose this was less than 50 years before Napoleon swept in and just extinguished the Republic with one fell swoop.He sees a lot of plays while he's here. He enjoys the ones that depict everyday Venetians, and apparently, so do the Venetians themselves.He sees the famous horses at St. Mark's Basilica. I'm surprised he doesn't remark that they're from Constantinople; maybe that wasn't well-known in his time.
>>24945093Thanks for the book report anon (I mean it unironically)
>>24945093good
I enjoyed Paul Morand's and Joseph Brodsky's books on Venice
>>24945093god you sound like an insufferable pedantic faggott
>>24946031I'd say its experience. Depends on how the brain is wired. I made an argument in my writings that atheists have different wired brains than theists. Not in terms of actual circuitry mind you but how their mind processes things.
>>24945026I thankfully took the Gnostic rout to atheism.But have recently rediscovered its worth and gone back to agnostic. No, this "Christianity" you follow is Paulist garbage. It's for "cucks" honestly.
>>24945318>look demon daddy, I put the Church's councils into a chart>>24945887Imagine thinking that Freud will save you from lies.>>24946726>atheists have different wired brains than theists. Not in terms of actual circuitry mind you but how their mind processes things.Atheists view the world through their god, which is masturbation. Masturbation was so unnatural that Freud endorsed a fellow medical "professional" to perform a nose surgery to get him to stop. It didn't work. Atheism is the theology of the gooner. It believes that something comes from nothing and that one can have sex with one's self. Atheism is the opiate of the low-tier sinner. It applies the revelation that Santa is fake, a ploy of the devil, to the pseudo-revelation that Jesus is Santa for adults. Atheism is devoid of rationality, cuts off all connection with the past, and is so contradictory as to be nothing short of laughable. Atheists think they despair because they can't find God because they think God is a thing. They are closed in on themselves. Why wouldn't they be? They, like me and most of you reading this, were raised in the death cult of our era, or said otherwise, hell. To be an atheist is merely to not have an adequate definition of God and how would they have one considering how they were raised? Between porn, careerism, birth control, abortion, violent sports, blasphemy, scientism, and a Church that has all but embraced syncretic relativism, what hope do they have? My great Master, Jesus, is always available to listen but with what social media offers up as "Christians" and are really heretics of the most despicable stripe, who would ever ask my good Master for help? Atheism is the fruit of the hell our culture and society put us in, it is as unsurprising as it is wrong.
>>24945318i wish this were true. it'd be so cool
Philosophy only distorts and waters down the Scriptures. You should rely on the authority, inerrancy and perspicuity of the Bible alone. Starting with philosophy subordinates God's revealed authority to the shifting, finite standard of human reason.>>24946774You think putting quotes around your meme buzzwords absolves you of using them?
Why is it that all great minds of antiquity thought that love was more than a crude neurochemical reaction? Would they have been redpilled if they were alive after the 20th century when advancement in chemistry demonstrated that love/eros is basically just a powerful drug? Honestly explains many things about the current perception of love in relation to modernity.
In old times women stayed with men out of fear of poverty or social repercussions and if they whored around they probably did it secretly and got away with it.Nowadays women have pretty much no incentive to stay in long term relationships and it's hard to hide cheating or sleeping around. Women no longer have any reason to be loyal and we see them at their worst every day. Romance is dead.I may be biased because I'm fresh off of a seven year relationship.
>>24945936Counterpoint: my wife stayed with me when i chose to retire early (at 31) and, later, i stayed with her all through cancer, accompanying her to every appointment, cleaning her when she was too sick, and taking care of all chores so she could spend her dwindling time on fun. Don't claim that love isn't real simply because you lack the devotion and patience to find it yourself.
>>24945936>We have academic proof that this is almost universal. There is a deep biological urge to leave your wife if she is ill. And a deep biological urge for women to leave her husband if his social status is downgraded.any proof of this , that would also carry for beffore the 1920 or later.
>>24945804Love proves God is real
Many thinkers today are not purely reductive materialists, and theories of the nature of love outside of its biological impetus are still open to discussion. So, to answer your question, you would have to see how the minds of antiquity synthesized the latest scientific/biological/psychological information of their time with their belief system - and make assumptions from there. The first hand experience of any intense emotion feels like its source could be transcendent or exterior - which is why the narrative that love is more than just chemicals still survives. The thing that incels and other data and stats worshippers fail to analyze is the psychology of people who do experience love despite it being inconvenient or not biologically advantageous. These are seen as rare exceptions, lies, malfunctions, or unreliable anecdotes. I don't think it's wise to disregard anecdotes, or assume that these things are merely anomalies. Some people are capable of directing their desires - and many thinkers of antiquity would think that the transcendental nature of love can be witnessed when one sublimates their base desires, or transmutes that energy. In material terms, this would be having the capacity to leverage what you know occurs chemically to serve your will. This is why I would imagine that clever people who remain in stable, long term relationships, commit to simulating an environment where novelty, dopamine, attachment, oxytocin, are constantly flowing. Further, what often fails to be discussed is the will of desire itself, and what shapes it. The current cultural climate does not reward patience, repairs, codependence - it rewards cheap and fast pleasure. So ultimately, any thinker that projects the weakness of his will onto humanity, who is deterministic, or who does not believe that energy can be transmuted, would likely be redpilled. The rest could still find non material explanations for the existence of love.
What do you know about romantic poetry?
>>24946702He's retarded, they revived it and expanded it. Poetry only survives in any form today because of them. The modernists made it soulless and inaccessible, effectively killing any substantial audience for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89loa,_ou_La_s%C5%93ur_des_anges
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>>24946672Ok npc
I'm not a fanPoetry for me started with Baudelaire
starfall knights editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: 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:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24898855
>>24947006What?
>>24947008Nani?
>>24947041Who would be the old loyalists, the houses I mentioned? Loyal to their old Gardener and Hoare overlords? Why would they be discontent with the peace and status quo Aegon brought?
>>24946956>>24947061My guess is the ESL wanted to indicate which powerful houses are quick to support a rebellion against the Targaryens, or at least make life harder for their lords paramount.Brackens and Blackwoods are too busy trying to find excuses to kill each other, so Tully has to always mediate differences to avoid picking one over the other.Freys have a stranglehold on half of the continent, and have actually made their powerplay in the main story. Even if Walder's gambit fails, two Freys can still clutch either The Vale or The Riverlands.No one gives a fuck about Ironborn, Harlaw having more prestige than Greyjoy is like saying dog shit is better than cat shit.Hightowers caused the Dance of the Dragons, but have already married into House Tyrell; Mace's wife is the daughter of the previous Lord Hightower, making Margaery the granddaughter of same Lord Leyton Hightower.Mace Tyrell's mother is Olenna Redwyne, the sister of the father to Paxter Redwyne.This is why it's a HUGE deal for Margaery to marry a king, because it would be the only way to personally unite the houses of The Reach:Horas & Hobber are the male heirs to House RedwyneWillas, then Garlan, are the male heirs to House TyrellDesmera Redwyne, sister to Horas and Hobber, is mostly likely to wed Dickon Tarly, heir to House Tarly.Any daughters of Margaery and a king would be eligible to marry any sons of Horas, Hobber, Willas, and Garlan; the result would be either a claimant or a strong marriage candidate to marry any lord paramount or higherComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I can tell these books are bad simply by looking at the author. The books are bad and you are bad people for reading them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Is Thomas Pynchon schizophrenic?I've always heard that PKD is a schizo but I think PKD's were more like manic psychotic breaks than full-blown schizophrenia.Pynchon was in his late 20s when he wrote V. and the Crying of Lot 49 and in mid-30s when he wrote Gravity's Rainbow. He's led the life of a total recluse since. Makes me think he started experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia in his 20s, as is usual, and then it progressed and he went into hiding.After GR he wouldn't release another book (Vineland) for almost 20 yearsPic related
>>24944632Tristero?
>>24944708>Contrary to Internet opinion, schizophrenics are retards who can barely understand human speech.Contrary to Internet opinion, schizophrenia, like all mental illness, varies in form depending on the IQ, with low-functioning and high-functioning individuals. Ted Kaczynski was vehement he wasn't schizophrenic but he was diagnosed as such and may just be an example of a highly-functioning schizophrenic
>>24946208>highly-functioning schizophrenicJohn Nash is another example
>>24946197Because you already received substantive replies and failed to engage with them. To continue soliciting replies to a question you aren't really interested in is pointless. All you want to do is push a misinformed amateur diagnosis
It was a different time. There was similar literature floating around, like the Illuminatus! trilogy
it's such a universal book. it applies to literally everything.
>>24945569Yes, that's why I switched to fiction. Everyone's regurgitating the same ideas dressed up slightly differently so might as well get some entertainment out of it.
>>24945818True
>>24945586His ethics are just Spinoza's
Einsteinians hate Kant. Bergerians hate Einstein
>>24945491Bro haven't read world as will
>is arguably the single most racist author in American history>marries a Jewish womanWhat did HP Lovecraft mean by this?
>>24947042Few white supremacists understand this.
>>24946605This, Lovecraft had spicy opinions but never hurt anyone due to their race (as far as I know).
>>24947063Of course he didn't. Look how weak and dysgenic he is. That Timmy wouldn't dare even raise his voice.
>>24946601implying jews are not racists.good one.
>>24946601He became a shitlib cuck later in life. There are pages in his diary seething about Huey Long and Franco.
Mention here literature according to /lit/ suitable to matriculate as a real /x/-ian. Or if /x/ was /lit/ cohorts first.
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>>24946516Old testament, clearly, as religious normies believe it's all literal, there was an age of miracles, with giants, floods, Abraham living to 175 years old, and then it just stopped,for some reason.
An Infinitely Large Napkin - Evan ChenDifferential Geometry - Alan Kennington
>>24946528>then it just stoppedOnly for Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox still have miracles and apparitions.Also OP check this book out.
I have an idea for a treatment. It's called "The 12 Tongues of Israel." It's about what happens when the gods finally talk to humanity. Here's how it works>it lasts one year>every month, a new message is displayed among the stars>the stars literally burn out and appear out of nothing in order to create the message>everyone sees the message in their native language>for the first time ever, scientists admit there is no possible explanation other than intervention from some kind of higher powerINTROA whole bunch of shit goes wrong because the first message is in Arabic and everyone takes that as a sign that Muhammad is the one true prophet and everyone needs to commit jihad, lmaooooo
>>24946076>>everyone sees the message in their native languageWhat about the people whose native language has no conventional written form?
>>24946076>Everyone sees the message in their native language>The first message is in arabicWhoah...
So they adapted a Pynchon novel for filmI've never read Pynchon before but like"One Battle After Another" - what the FUCK is this turbo jogger leftist power fanstasy bullshit?I always realized Hollywood is a bunch left-leaning cucks but holy fuck they outdid themselves with this one.The level of blatant propaganda is on par with fucking commie films of Stalin's era or something.This guy made "There will be blood" and now this what the fuck. This movie doesn't even feel real, it's a caricature of a movie.Tell me bros is Pynchon cringe plebbitor shit like that and not based? Le speaking truth to power
>>24946767>he is thinking... of a Negro's penis
>>24946260>showing its ultimate product in the daughter being a No Kings liberal protestor at the end of the film.I agree this was silly but that was not the point of the movie.PTA has adapted viceland and inherent vice, the central theme of both is how countercultural/revolutionary movements ultimately get subsumed by the machine and become part of the establishment.We see the French 75 completely implode because Leos gf snitches on everyone, they never manage to recover. Beyond the state coming down in full force, we see the flaws within the French 75. One of the most shocking and ironic scenes is the bank robbery scene, where the black girl is screaming about black power before murdering the black security guard. Ultimately these groups have a spark that extinguish fast, due to entropy and state power.The majority of the movie is occupied with the aftermath of the betrayal of Leo's gf, how the French 75 is aged out and irrelevant, and yet some spirit of it remains, as this ragtag team manage to somehow save the girl.And, in the same way that the old hippies became yuppies, we see genuine marxist violent revolutionaries implode and turn into identity politics obsessed libtards
hearing about how gravitys rainbow was "lol so randum!" tier with literal scat scenes pretty much guaranteed i would never take Pynchon seriously.glad to see that instinct is correct
>>24946904you are loss
>>24946904Lazy non-reading nigger coming up with reasons to not read
