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2016-07-28 at 2:09 PM UTC in AI, Immortality and the Future of Selves:What's your take on Martine Rothblatt and your future robot replacement?
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2016-07-27 at 4:16 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition[h=1]END TIMES SIGNS: LATEST EVENTS (JULY 27TH, 2016)[/h]
end times, end times signs, end times news, end times events, bible prophecy, prophecy in the news, tornado, earthquake, strange weather, strange events, apocalyptic signs, apocalyptic events, strange weather phenomenon
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2016-07-26 at 7:52 PM UTC in Stranger ThingsHere, watch the first 8 minutes and see for yourself:
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2016-07-26 at 7:01 PM UTC in AI, Immortality and the Future of Selves:AI, Immortality and the Future of Selves:
Martine Rothblatt, CEO of United Therapeutics and author of “Virtually Human: The Promise – and Peril – of Digital Immortality,†speaks with New York magazine’s Lisa Miller about the ideas behind a career and a life of radical innovation. Rothblatt and Miller will talk about such concepts as xenotransplantation, artificial intelligence, transgenderism, pharmaceutical development, space exploration, robotics – and the ways in which technology can help extend human life, and love, perhaps indefinitely.
Also see: Analogy as the Core of Cognition:
In this Presidential Lecture, cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter examines the role and contributions of analogy in cognition, using a variety of analogies to illustrate his points.
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2016-07-26 at 6:56 PM UTC in Stranger ThingsThere is a group of 4 nerdy boys as the main protagonists, but there is also a couple of teenagers and a couple of adults that are all protagonists and all dealing with the same situation. There is swearing.I would say it is meant to be a HORROR in the same way that The Shining or the original Alien is a Horror. Whether or not you watch this with your kids is kind of a personal choice and probably depends on the kid too, just ask yourself if you would you watch The Shining or Alien with your kids? If so then this is probably OK too. There are parts that I found amusing but it's not a comedy. I personally find it fun but that might be because I personally enjoy creepy paranormal stuff.
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2016-07-26 at 3:40 PM UTC in Stranger ThingsHave you seen this new Netflix Original yet?
Here is a trailer:
It's about creepy paranormal stuff, Stephen King-type stuff, people with telekinetic powers and alternate realities and men in black suits trying to cover it all up. It's good. -
2016-07-26 at 2:06 PM UTC in Yay! I fixed the un-even sound in my headphones.^ They don't make wireless ones?
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2016-07-25 at 8 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionUnable to start a new thread, so I will post this here: [h=1]AI, Immortality and the Future of Selves:[/h]
Martine Rothblatt, CEO of United Therapeutics and author of “Virtually Human: The Promise – and Peril – of Digital Immortality,†speaks with New York magazine’s Lisa Miller about the ideas behind a career and a life of radical innovation. Rothblatt and Miller will talk about such concepts as xenotransplantation, artificial intelligence, transgenderism, pharmaceutical development, space exploration, robotics – and the ways in which technology can help extend human life, and love, perhaps indefinitely.
Also see: [h=1]Analogy as the Core of Cognition:[/h]
In this Presidential Lecture, cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter examines the role and contributions of analogy in cognition, using a variety of analogies to illustrate his points.
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2016-07-23 at 4:42 AM UTC in How can you tell if someone is committing indecent exposure in a locker room?Probably depends on who's playing the victim.
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2016-07-21 at 7:16 PM UTC in I know HOW to roll a blunt, I just can't.Never bothered rolling a real blunt but I used to get these flavored papers the brand was called "brown sugar" they were made out of processed tobacco leaf paper cut to the same size as a regular joint paper. They were the best.
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2016-07-20 at 11:28 PM UTC in How much shit would a shitfucker fuck if a shitfucker could fuck shit?Even if a shitfucker could fuck shit and even if a shitfucker would fuck shit, should a shitfucker fuck shit?
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2016-07-20 at 9:50 PM UTC in Illuminati FILeS!1!Have you seen my thread titled An Introduction to Hyperspace?
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2016-07-20 at 9:48 PM UTC in Post something so I can read something while I shit something tomorrow in the morning
Sounds cool but the graphics are so bad. Like, it's just one tiny bit above not actually existing and you just made that up in your head. Minecraft should be text based cause it just doesn't look good.
It's not for everyone, but I don't know many other games that allow you to change the environment as much as this one. If you ever feel like trying it out I would play with you.
I also don't like that it kinda made pixel art mainstream. *edge*
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2016-07-20 at 5:23 PM UTC in Post something so I can read something while I shit something tomorrow in the morning
If you'd have done that to me i'd DDoS your server for retribution.
The entire point of the AztecMC server is to raid other players. It's not my server, I do not own a server, this is just a server I play on. I would invite you to join but if you actually would shut the server down just because someone raided you when the entire purpose of this server is raiding one another I don't think you're the type of person who should be playing on it. -
2016-07-20 at 12:58 AM UTC in Post something so I can read something while I shit something tomorrow in the morningRecently I was playing minecraft on the AztecMC server. Some new players foolishly invited me to check out their base 20,000 blocks out from spawn. Of course, the first thing I did was copy their coordinates. Two days later myself and two other people travel out to their base when they are offline. We take everything of value, destroyed and burned down and blew up and killed everything else. The best part is that they don't suspect us at all. Their team broke apart and now we are just waiting for them to build up a good supply of resources before we raid the new bases.
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2016-07-15 at 4:26 PM UTC in SWIY's favourite method of consuming marijuana
saw that recently, super-expensive, couldn't figure out what justifies the price
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2016-07-14 at 8:46 PM UTC in SWIY's favourite method of consuming marijuanaI'm not Malice. I do miss the sound of the ol' bong rip.
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2016-07-13 at 9:15 PM UTC in SWIY's favourite method of consuming marijuanaI enjoy using my PAX2 portable vaporizer. However it needs to be charged and requires maintenance. A pipe is usually convenient and and my go-to method most days. I used to smoke bong hits all the time but haven't used the bong in a couple years now. I like rolling joints too but only do so on occasions when I have a few friends over.
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2016-07-11 at 2:24 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
Oh, Schopenhauer, you are my patron saint, my kindred spirit. So many gems, some of which turn out to be surprisingly uncommonly repeated.
"To marry means to do everything possible to become an object of disgust to each other."
"“There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. It is inborn in us, because it coincides with our existence itself, and our whole being is only its paraphrase, indeed our body is its monogram. We are nothing more than the will-to-live, and the successive satisfaction of all our willing is what we think of through the concept of happiness. So long as we persist in this inborn error, and indeed even become confirmed in it through optimistic dogmas, the world seems to us full of contradictions."
"But we now turn our glance from our own needy and perplexed nature to those who have overcome the world, in whom the will, having reached complete self knowledge, found itself again in everything, and then freely denied itself, and who then merely wait to see the last trace of the will vanish with the body that is animated by that race. Then, instead of the restless pressure and effort; instead of the constant transition from desire to apprehension, and from joy to sorrow; instead of the never-satisfied and never-dying hope that constitutes the life of the man who wills, we see that peace that is higher all reason, that ocean-like calmness of the spirit, that deep tranquility, that unshakable confidence and serenity, whose mere reflection in the countenance, as depicted by Raphael and Correggio is an complete and certain gospel. Only knowledge remains, the will has vanished. We then look with deep and painful yearning on that state, beside which the miserable and desperate nature of our own appears in the clearest light by the contrast. Yet this consideration is the only one that can permanently console us, when, on the one hand, we have recognized incurable suffering and endless misery as essential to the phenomenon of will, to the world, and, on the other, see the world melt away with the abolished will, and retain before us only
empty nothingness."
I also found a paper that brought some fascinating insights about what the Buddha may have actually meant by reincarnation and karma: Schopenhauer's Transcendental Problem
http://www.academia.edu/7999806/Schopenhauers_Transcendental_Problem
Contrary to how the vast majority interpret it, reincarnation may be closer to the scientific principles!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_science
The laws of conservation, momentum/motion!
And karma may merely be causality, which due to our evolution, the biological basis of our behavior that was formed through the process, and our society, interpersonal connections and structures, cause many to fall for the illusion that, when commonly used, it's something akin to "God's going to punish you for that!". Simply a variation of the common need for a belief that there is a greater/transcendent force or being that rewards us and others for what we believe is "good" and punishes them for what we believe is "evil", something that ensures justice, protects us, gives us a sense of security. The implications and requirements for the common, or at least primarily the modern Western interpretation, are completely absurd if through through at length.
Continuing on the misinterpretation of karma, if the sense of self, the ego, consciousness, separation between things is illusory, then it is simply a theme that has been repeated by some as giving them a sense of being eternal, yet which seemed unsatisfactory to me because there was no preservation of consciousness. Talk of significance or quantification is irrelevant and only demonstrates or leads to misconstruing. We return to the earth and beings will spring forth from the earth, matter/energy, beings who suffer, sentient beings, self-aware human beings with the greatest capacity to suffer of all. We, those in the past, the future, are all effected by causality, the actions (debate about free will could introduce some problems here, but let's set that aside) those before us make. Ultimately there may be no real need to differentiate between causality as a whole and the actions of human beings (Focusing on this planet, the one we know contains life and we exist on.), but to use a parochial example that will be more intuitive and relatable to the common man, let's say you commit an action that causes the mass suffering of others, maybe you attain the status of an evil misanthropic billionaire and commit a mass poisoning of the land, detonate a device that causes mass amounts of radiation, some that will generally cause suffering/disutility to life. In the above sense of reincarnation, keeping in mind the concept of no-self, of a lack of true separateness, there is no punishment via you being born into a specific worse life (Let us remember the concept of canon, how works, the source, primarily ancient texts of this nature, are misinterpreted, altered, lost, added to, debated and built upon.) by the common quasi-religious (Well, it practically is religious, but also extremely poorly formed.) view of karma of our time, but you could say you are causing yourself to be born into a worse life, a life filled with more suffering, via this interpretation. "We are all one."
And on Nirvana, the liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth driven by desire, which leads to suffering: pertinent is Schopenhauer's concept of "will-to-life", the strongest manifestation of which is the cluster of lust, love, romance, sex, leading to children, successive generations. Much of it summarized here: http://www.thebookoflife.org/the-great-philosophers-arthur-schopenhauer/
Given human nature, of course the modern misinterpretation is what would have been led to, how it would have been misconstrued as. It would never have been widely accepted otherwise if you understand the implications!
So finally it leads to the question of the path to true liberation. I wasn't thinking about this when I wrote a post recently arguing the compatibility of Buddhism and anti-natalism, that Buddha would have been in agreeance with the philosophy. Voluntary human extinction wouldn't be enough, there would still be other forms of life, and I have argued that the cessation of all life may be the most altruistic act that could be attained, an ultimate aim.
So what is it? As strange as it may sound, if you detonated a bomb of enormous power, used some mechanism to ensure the earth would never give rise to life again, would the Buddha have supported it? Or do we move towards AI, becoming one, my argument being that it should be our ultimate aim, maximizing our capacity for attaining knowledge, processing it, our aptitude for logic and reasoning, attaining the clearest view, the "power" to have the best chance at attaining "truth", the (correct) "answer" and decisions, actions. It could have the power to end all life without suffering, or perhaps be the closest thing to Nirvana/Heaven, or, as I've said before, this is all speculative because it and what would occur would be beyond our ability to comprehend or predict. Wouldn't it be strange if the most malevolent beings in science fiction, ones moving throughout the universe seeking to eradicate or "consume" all life turned out to be the most benevolent of all, our deliverance?
We should have churches with pastors reading Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and other immortals. Reveling in ecstasy at their truth, their wisdom, and the beauty of it.
RisiR, if I die or go mad, spread my gospel and find meaning in your life, salvation from your suffering, joy, peace, until the end-and-the-beginning comes.
I really like the idea of things like Prime Intellect, replacing systems of government and police with a super intelligent AI taking "human error" out of the picture. -
2016-07-07 at 7:08 PM UTC in ATTN: ObbeI don't know if it's correct to call him a cult leader since his group is technically not a cult. But from what I have read it is cult-like in that he convinces young impressionable people to abandon their families and social support systems and to replace those with his online community. I have also read that he guilts these people into giving him money since he "enlightened" them.
