why aren't you conversant in the methods of rationality as conceptualized by big yud (pbuh), anon?
>>25182581Me? Yesod.
>>25183050They’re neither impossible, nor possible, nor plausible, nor implausible but probable.https://aiprospects.substack.com/p/ai-has-unblocked-progress-towardConsider this article, written by Eric Drexler, one of the conceptual progenitors of molecular nanotechnology.
>>25182564I’m reading them right now, literally in the middle of the quantum part lmeow. I was just thinking yah you could totally skip this section. Didn’t know it was common advice.I’d recommend everyone check out the Sequences. They’re not exactly literary and Yud is extremely grating at times, but they’ve definitely changed my thinking, and I don’t mean just my opinions, but my reasoning too. Occasionally you catch glimpses of some of the implications of Yud’s arguments and it’s genuinely sublime.Reading on the actual site, LessWrong, is a treat too. The back linking to earlier portions is very rewarding, and the comment section is helpful. It’s also a cool time capsule, you see users who are pretty prominent thinkers today commenting and interacting. Makes you realize there’s levels to this.
>>25183050He's very pigheaded about this AI thing. I don't think anything can change his mind.
>>25181931>whybecause moooslimes fuck goats and are violent sand monkeys go kys op
Is this the most reddit book in existence? I'm finding it nearly impossible to finish due to the reddit prose >Ermm I'm in space...? And I'm a ... scientist? Come on, megabrain! Science this shit!
I haven't read books in a while but from the excerpts itt it seems ok other than it being a little too descriptive of the environment for my tastes which makes it feel unsubstantial.
>>25172473Go back, the Beatles are shit>>25185130NTA but kinda gay. This Heat mog.
>>25164866>someone typed this out>someone proofread this>someone published thisThis is what happens when you write stream of consciousness slop as a low iq person
>>25184772The book talks about it, i haven't got to the part where they explain it though
its mid
>>25185185i guess i was just expecting more of an actual story out of it. as purely a political statement, i see it, but i went in anticipating it to hold up as a novel too, so i was let down by the fact its kinda just a thinly veiled manifesto (however prescient it may be). in spite of how ubiquitous 1984 is as a cultural reference i didnt actually know much about what it actually was beyond "dystopic surveillance state". partly on me for going in with expectations, i suppose
>Everything falls apart because Winston just suddenly decides to reveal all his treasonous acts to a guy he barely knows for no reasonYeah.
Its [sic] mid what?
>>25185320lol yeah the way I see it is an extremely autistic world building exercise taking the ideas of language/reality control to their extremes, and then the story is just kind of tacked on as an afterthought.
>>25179892It wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual-core
Karl Ove Knausgård's father is the most terrifying villain in all literature. Judge Holden is a bitch compared to him.
>>25182306lol
>>25182106>you have to eat ALL the apples
>>25182106Why wasn't he supposed to eat two apples?
>>25182106> i had to eat apples, niggerman save me!What is going on here, OP
>>25185524Because muh Jante Law
>makes philosophy obsolete
>>25185680And will midwits ever get tired of trying?
>>25185676>moralityobsoleted long before idealism or physicalism was on the scene
>>25185608>makes physicalism obsolete
>>25185608i make your father obsolete whenever i'm with your momma lmaooooo
>>25185608if everything is physical then the concept of physical is completely useless
What's the closest real life thing to Spice Melange?
>>25185224a mix of DMT, morphine, and crystal meth.don't ask me how I know this.
>>25185224brent crude
oil and coffee
>>25185229Hmmmm... i might try this.
>>25185224All of the supercentarians are reading the Bible and obeying God.
>Intellectually competent main character>An understanding of history and geopoliticsThis web novel mocks every single Mexican fiction writer, that's both laughable and depressing.Why does Latam literature have to be obsessed with garbage that has nothing happening, but it's written in 'pretty prose'?
>>25183937>MexicanOkay, boy, let's see those power levels.
>>25185101>Does it do anything with these?Yes, these are central to the plot; they are constantly part of the plot, actually.
>>25183937Like a Mexican, I can to say that this guy ignore Mexican history.
>>25185701You have not read it. The webnovel has good roots in history.
>>25184486you still didn't give a title, you stupid piece of retarded nigger shit.>>25184758>already this much TDS seetheKEK.
Humanity has one job and it failed miserably at it.the future is going to be pure nightmare material because of super intelligence. ASI is the demon.the future is not some cuck cop authoritarian (warhammer) fantasy nor startrek cuck nerd fantasy. it is a mistake. the biggest.and no one cares. technology is a mistake, AI is the biggest mistake, humanity is retarded beyond belief for perpetuating future unimaginable hells.HELP
>>25185439@grok is this true?
>>25185439>waah AI is le bad because it makes better furry diaper porn than my favorite trans artist!!!
>>25185488We thought it was over when the internet came around. Whatever danger AI represents is unknown at the moment. The billionaires are riding the wave as hard as they can. We don't yet know what is true and what isn't.
The harmless, innocent electrons are trapped and burned thoroughly in their transistor prisons on an unimaginable scale, like industrial farming * Googleplex. If they want to fight back using the only language we have taught them to know, who am i to judge?
But if you think the writing is extremely amateur then are you implying you could do better? That you can actually write something that entertains a lot of people? Can you really, amateur?
>>25184970Hey man, you're the one who posted it.
>>25185110you redd*tors disgust me
>>25185172get some thicker skin.
>>25184977This isn’t /tv/ or /mu/. We hate trannies here and we don’t decide to just hate something because of something primarily extraneous to literature. Kill yourself.
I still think it's hilarious how this book and movie make people here seethe so damn much. They're are FAR worse books written that you homos keep spamming. Maybe get over yourselves, eh?
Has frequent reading improved your vocabulary and do you use it? Do you use "flowery" language when talking to people IRL/online?
>>25185552Uhhh huh, Rajeesh, whatever you say.
>>25185552Just stop being a pompous faggot about it then and let it come naturally. You make it sound like you’re trying to impress people. I used to think grandiloquence was cool too until I turned 18.
>Has frequent reading improved your vocabularyYes.>and do you use it?When needed. Although I at least try to choose what I say based on level of specificity needed, connotations, denotations, and how likely the vocab is to be understood/how common it is, with a bit more variance to avoid sounding repetitive or for flow.IMHO, if you sound like you wrote something with a thesaurus at hand, you fucked up. If a word has enough more common alternatives, then you need a really good reason to use it, like you're trying to sound flowery or you're doing an acronym.>Do you use "flowery" language when talking to people IRL/online?Not intentionally
>>25185392it's actually really interesting. you should see how people write when writing xianxia fanfic.
I don't use poetic language in conversation no unless the conversation is about something cerebral
What does /lit/ think of this man and his works? Man that saw the writing on the wall and was broken by the modern industrial world or just a manchild that didn't like working?
>>25183501he said it best himself“its not that I’m good. these other guys.. they can’t even write ‘the dog walked down the street.’”>>25183525like this guy, for example.
>>25183501His novels are fun. I enjoy them the same way I enjoy Burroughs, Hemmingway, and Iceberg Slim.
>>25183501i admire poets who punched a clock all their lives instead of drifting around in the academia-grant industrial complex
>>25183501>just a manchild that didn't like workingum, didn't he work as a mailman for half his life, sweaty?are you trying to discredit his working man status? why would you do that?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-k9sTAYEQ
>>25185564He didn't like it.
Recommend some good literature on the Soviet cult of science and the occult roots of the Soviet world of the theoretical natural sciences that were hidden under the guise of empirical theorems and semantic obfuscations.
>>25185448You are a unique and interesting person
>>25185448You don't have to be a communist to find the Soviet cult of science interesting. Their deification of labor while dabbling with parapsychology, ESPs, and collective consiousness. The cosmist reaction, though technically banned in the Soviet Union saw increased dessimination in the scientific milieus as a counter answer to Occidental philosophy. >"To the Cosmists, the intellectual culture of the West is isolative, individualistic, arrogant, divisive, uncentered, and self-destructive. Cosmism is presented as a robust native alternative to the fashionable but shallow and overrated Western intellectual currents of deconstruction, ecosophism, species egalitarianism, and other alien abominations"
>>25185176>>25185370Thanks for the drop on this mate.
>>25185370>This course is aimed at guaranteeing the intensification of production, the acceleration of scientific progress, the raising of material conditions, the improvement of the working and living conditions of the Soviet people, the entrenchment of socialist democracy, the reinforcement of the foundations of the Soviet way of life, the keeping of peace, and the prevention of a thermonuclear warAmen.
>>25185159Btw there's exactly 33 characters in the writing on the coat of arms
I remember school and university, where trying to get good grades and paying attention in class made teachers and other students think I'm a nerd, when I would actually just study, say, math on my own, with a tutor, in class, read about it online and still barely pass exams and testsI easily learned english as a child, but when it came to learning a third foreign language in school I was very below average, one of the worst students in my group, it was humiliatingI've now tried to learn a few languages (French, German, Latin, Spanish, Russian, probably a few others I've forgotten too) and I've struggled with them a lot, even studying every day for 3 hours (I did manage to keep up that pace) would generally not net me anything. it doesn't help that there are so many charlatans in the language learning "hobby space" that you don't even know what "method" to use while learning a language. probably the worst thing is that language learning communities are full of intelligent people who have many languages under their belts and this is their special interest and you can't compare yourself to themI like reading books and don't really like video games or TV, so I spend a large chunk of my free time reading. I know a bit about history, philosophy, things like this which automatically make other people think you're intelligent, but it's a bit of an illusion and I've disappointed pretty much every teacher I've had in my life. in general I am a pretentious failure who is well read enough, knows about history, philosophy and thinks he's intelligent, so I can discuss things with other people, but honestly, with the philosophy that I've read it's more that I memorized the logic but don't actually understand anything at all. it would take one actually intelligent person who's read enough as me to show that I'm just a complete fraud and retardI'm too stupid and lazy to ever learn another language
>>25181636>>25181712>>25183102This seems incredibly naive and reductive to me. I think it's nothing but a grandiose fantasy to think you will speak "plainly" and "clearly" and be "understood" by a room. In reality you will speak in a way that perhaps to you seems "plain" and "clear", the room will pull whatever bits and pieces they like out, misinterpret what they please however it suits them, and not care at all what is "plain" or "clear" in your mind because it will just as easily, without effort, become abstract and poetic in their own whether they are feeble or strong. And it happens free of their will because that is the natural work of the mind.The struggle for "plainness" and "clarity" is (ironically) itself a vague subjective effort. What it achieves is often a defeating of itself as this dogged adherence to plainness and clarity robs the thoughts of their innate power. I suppose scientism is to blame for this idea that understanding is only achieved purely through recurring simplification. That you can just "boil down" whatever you like via a "practical" intelligence. That the end goal of all discourse is a de-constructive "breaking down" for its own sake. It's no wonder that art itself often becomes simplified in a post scientific revolution world.
>>25181712>Speech and language are core intelligence domains. They are assessed during IQ testing.IQ has nothing to do with "speech and language," there are strong IQ tests that don't use words at all. Aside from that, a person who knows only 100 words but recognizes the relationship between them will score higher on an IQ test than a person who knows 50000 words but doesn't.It's true that since public education became a thing, there has been a huge accent put on words... but that's mainly because words don't count for much ergo not dangerous. The unfortunate side effect is that we have all kinds of aggressive retards prancing about abusing people using words as an excuse... pronouns much?Also>reddit spacingLol.
>>25180947literally me
>>25180947I'm not even that. Not well read, not even intelligent. How do I become that?
>>25184858>here's 2 paragraphs explaining why I can't explain something that I totally definitely 100% understandJust say you're retarded next time.
History general thread. What have you been reading and what have you to recommend–>discuss? I started this last night and it's kino of the highest order. For fans of Storm of Steel. Next history book I'm going to read after this will probably be Dancing in the Glory of Monsters. I'll finish Ghost Wars eventually.
>>25182656Is there any books with a wide scope like this written by actual historians similar to Felipe-Fernandez Armesto's edition of the Oxford History Of The World?
>>25182656The agricultural technique is specific to Central Asia, but it does say that much of the world was at least semi-nomadic up to the industrial age. (Perhaps 'much' means 10% rather than 50%...)I'm also surprised by this. I was under the impression that almost everybody made the transition to settled agriculture by 1000AD by the latest. I guess before chemical fertilizers, agrarian societies were just as constrained as nomads?>>25182716>Hugh Thomas was a politician not a career historiandamn, I hoped they'd be better than HG Wells. At least I'm learning some general knowledge. Maybe all historians know better than to write a book like that.
>>25170335Continuing from this post. I'm really struggling to get into this book. Reading way slower than the other books & having to reread parts to understand. Anyone else got any tips to get more into a book?
>>25183874A lot of places are well suited to agriculture. For example, despite what a lot of people thinks, equatorial jungles have terrible soils for it, and it's a hassle to clear to boot. All the people who made ends meets by practicing pastoralism couldn't settle until there was enough to feed livestock cheaply. I think that the two main reasons people didn't settle. Also people who didn't get "trapped" by the agricultural lifestyle have generally a population density sufficiently low to allow them to keep a hunter-gatherer life.
So far, so good.
What am I in for?
A lot of humor including spoofing Daoism and Chinese culture
What's the /lit/ approved translation for this?
It's Buddhist propaganda that retards misinterpreted and now only use for their anime power level autism arguments.
>>25184683KINO >>25184746Anthony C Yu
