/lit/ - Literature

>>12213819
>If the AI explosion happens all that is human will be relatively extremely stupid and unnecessary.

that's my feel also in some sense. partly good, because it could possibly clear away a lot of hysterical persecution conducted today under the metaphysics of difference; partly bad because it can upset the social order so much that mass scapegoating then becomes required to 'put things back together'...that being where we are now...and the wheels of doom continue to turn...

but that's Enlightenment for you, Western-style. the reign of 2d ideas tend to clear up as much confusion as they put back into the world...

i'm all for grasping our own stupidity and general unnecessariness, but we are the dreaming and amorous meatbag species also, and part of our charm is our stupidity and sense of the absurd, the grotesque, and much else that allows for creativity, invention, and also empathy, compassion, and much else.

>>12213840
>I think his critique doesn't locate a human, so I don't know why it suggests antihumanism
there's a fine line between inhumanism and antihumanism. i'm fine with a measured inhumanism, just so that we de-romanticize the human a little bit. anti-humanism doesn't seem to me to be necessary, but only because i'm a mushball at heart and not really too hardcore. i paradoxically like Land for this reason, but it makes my life difficult sometimes (especially when i wind up fighting with people i like about his work, which is very stupid)

>And if we do find a human in his critique, why do you hate me so much?
who hates you? show this person to me. i will destroy their testicles

> Almost a mirror of Kurzweil
not a crazy comparison tbqh. Dark Kurzweil

>it's a buyers market. what can I say.
nothin.' you're right

Dune art b/c why not, House Atreides was pretty acc

>>12213881
made me chuckle