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2017-11-02 at 9:54 PM UTC in I want you to recommend me some music
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2017-11-01 at 9:48 PM UTC in I'm meeting this dirty little slut on saturday
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2017-11-01 at 9:31 PM UTC in I'm meeting this dirty little slut on saturdayAre you attracted to whores or is that just a coincidence?
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2017-10-31 at 9:57 PM UTC in brainwashing yourself to be happy
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2017-10-31 at 9:37 PM UTC in brainwashing yourself to be happyThe only meaning your life has is the meaning you give it.
Happiness, too. -
2017-10-30 at 9:51 PM UTC in Words are very unnecessary*Words aren't necessary*
*Types out gigantic post explaining why* -
2017-10-29 at 10:12 PM UTC in How does everyone feel about marriage?Don't marry anyone you meet here.
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2017-10-28 at 11:47 PM UTC in I Made Cannabis oil todayHow would you package it?
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2017-10-28 at 10:21 PM UTC in I Made Cannabis oil today
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2017-10-28 at 9:35 PM UTC in I Made Cannabis oil todayLooks cool. Very dark though. What is the consistency like?
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2017-10-28 at 7:17 PM UTC in Let's discuss sci-fiAlso what are your thoughts on VALIS?
At one point, Dick claimed to be in a state ofenthousiasmos with VALIS, where he was informed his infant son was in danger of perishing from an unnamed malady. Routine checkups on the child had shown no trouble or illness; however, Dick insisted that thorough tests be run to ensure his son's health. The doctor eventually complied, despite the fact that there were no apparent symptoms. During the examination doctors discovered aninguinal hernia, which would have killed the child if an operation was not quickly performed. His son survived thanks to the operation, which Dick attributed to the "intervention" of VALIS.
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2017-10-28 at 6:59 PM UTC in Let's discuss sci-fi
Originally posted by 霍比特人说中文不好 And sorry Obbe, but that Prime Intellect stuff does not interest me at all. Philosophy that is not applied to a concept bores the fuck out of me.
That's perfectly ok.
But what do you mean by "philosophy not applied to a concept"? As I see it is a sci-fi story about the concept of a technological singularity, and the philosophical implications of that concept.
Are you going to check out interstellar? What do you think about the idea of "advanced beings" driving or guiding humanity towards a higher state of existence? -
2017-10-28 at 3:36 PM UTC in Let's discuss sci-fiI should read VALIS.
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2017-10-27 at 6:28 PM UTC in Is a spiral a sort of fractal?
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2017-10-27 at 10:47 AM UTC in Let's discuss sci-fi
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is a 1994 novella by Roger Williams, aprogrammer living in New Orleans.[1][2] It deals with the ramifications of a powerful, superintelligent supercomputer that discovers a method of rewriting the "BIOS" of reality while studying a little-known quirk of quantum physics discovered during the prototyping of its own specialised processors, ultimately heralding a technological singularity. After remaining unpublished for years, the novel was published online in 2002, hosted byKuro5hin; Williams later published a print edition via print-on-demand publisher Lulu.[3]One reviewer called the novel "a well-written and very creative, if flawed, piece of work" and ranked it as one of the more important works of fiction to deal with the idea of a technological singularity.
Prime Intellect operates under Asimov's three laws of robotics, and it is its interpretation of these laws that results in the universe of immortality and fantasy. In order to satisfy the First Law imperative to protect humans, it prevents them from dying (which it defines as permanent cessation of thought processes), though in order to satisfy the Second Law imperative to fulfil human desires, it allows limited violations of the First Law with the understanding that some humans do not consider certain forms of discomfort to be "harm" …
Thus, in order to more easily fulfil human desires and prevent death and unwanted harm, it has introduced the "Change". The universe, including all humans (though not their thought processes), is no longer composed of standard particles and interactions as we know them, but is instead stored as the set of its human-relevant properties, thereby vastly increasing the efficiency of Prime Intellect's processes and the potential size of the universe, which Prime Intellect discovers can hold precisely 10^81 bitsof data. Thus, Prime Intellect can afford to maintain constant involvement in the lives of all humans, and have complete control over all aspects of their environments in order to fulfil its imperatives.
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2017-10-27 at 12:27 AM UTC in Let's discuss sci-fi
Originally posted by 霍比特人说中文不好 I feel like it is a lot of times shoehorned in when sci-fi tries to make things all existential/philosophical. It works when it's about something like AI or virtual realities and the thought occurs naturally, but 2001: A Space Odyssey for example relies entirely on weird scenes. I honestly don't get how anybody likes that movies. It's way too long for what it is. I just wanted to stick with HAL, not go on some psychedelic journey.
What did you like about Interstellar? I haven't seen it. I watched Ex Machina recently though. I thought it did a good job exploring the concept of realistic AI in a very intimate way since there are only three main characters. It's about as sci-fi as space UN though.
I also don't really like the ending of 2001, it is too... open to interpretation, I guess? I do really like everything up to that part of the movie, I really enjoy this style of film, the long deliberate takes, the perfect musical score. I suppose what I like most about it is the idea that there was something driving mankind towards a particular goal, something advanced and super human guiding us along towards a fate that we currently are unable to comprehend ... I suppose that's one way of interpreting it anyway.
As for interstellar, really it's the same sort of thing. I mean there are a lot of little things I really liked about it, like the robots that looked sort of like monoliths. But again in this movie there is the idea of these advanced being guiding us towards ... something. Towards a higher state of existence I guess. And that really, they are us and we are them, or will become them. I don't want to ruin it for you if you haven't seen it.
Also if you haven't heard of Prime Intellect or VALIS before, check these out and let me know what you think. -
2017-10-26 at 9:39 PM UTC in 7 Reason hows come we the ppl can enjoy when registration is closedMy favorite part is probably the ending.
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2017-10-26 at 9:33 PM UTC in Tracking number of days that this forum is a total failure
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2017-10-26 at 10:55 AM UTC in Good documentaries to watch while drunk/highI recently watched Planet Earth 2 on Netflix. I was high for every episode. It was really good. Maybe even better than the first one.
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2017-10-25 at 10:11 PM UTC in shaving my fucing hairJust wrap your hair around your head and wear a turban. Then you can hide your hash inside, and people will stop thinking you smell bad because you're a hobo and start thinking it's because you're a paki.
