/lit/ - Literature

>>13038214
he wrote essays on mind and matter and also dynamics of mind.

also he is a vidya character

>>11873595
>The infrastructure for it doesn't exist in enough areas of China for it be truly ubiquitous. It's also likely to result in massive inefficiencies once sycophants inevitably figure out how to game the system, filling the bureaucracy with corrupt kleptocrats

i hope so. and this is a good point also, maybe it will be like this.

i mean part of me can really imagine the appeal of this, which is why i am fucked up by it. everybody would love to have this if you were leading your country like it were some video game. why not min-max your whole citizenship? or even when i look at my own busted and hopeless life like a self-loathing existential wonk, i think, yes, exactly, who needs people like me? and like a whole kafkaesque fairytale plays out in my mind, the cockroach and the whole family being More Wholesome together at the end. all this.

i can almost imagine a benevolent version of this, even, like starfleet. or my mind just goes - yes, of course! all credit really is social credit! all glory to the hive!

but i'm certain life is hard over there even for people who have the good score also. because it will just never be good enough...and then you can imagine all kinds of stuff that will happen when officials begin abusing this power, and so on.

god. xi jinping really is That Guy at the moment but man, this stuff messes with me on some level. probably because i still harbor all kinds of deep-seated inner fantasies about governing a totalitarian state like it was a video game.
>but that is what SMAC is for i guess

>This is not to say China isn't likely to succeed with many of its other dystopian schemes like universal facial recognition though.

yeah. they're going to try all that stuff out. i read somewhere about facial recognition becoming the universal password system for a lot of things - after all, you can't change your face
>outside of M:I films

>>11873413
wow. thanks for sharing this anon

so china's basically going to lead the psychosocial scientific revolution in the 21C?