/lit/ - Literature

>>21858402
>trusting goodread reviews

i'll just wait for someone else to list them and let anon think it was me

>>21289971
>chapo trap house

>>20606986
Funny. Behaviorists proposed a similar determinist perspective. Grand-scale morality and ethics, thru a detached non-anthropocentric perspective, literally will never be discussed on /lit/ or any of the other boards. The entire subject becomes incomprehensible to most 4chan users sadly, turns into shit flinging black-and-white Christianity vs. Atheism vs. Organized-Meme-Religion-of-the-Month discussions. Probably unironically the great filter to weed out every illiterate troglodyte retard on this board

Hell-on-earth scenarios are actually possible, doubly when you consider A.I. and modern technological developments

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N4AvpwNs7mZdQESzG/the-dilemma-of-worse-than-death-scenarios

>The most extreme example would be an indefinite state of suffering comparable to the biblical Hell, perhaps caused by an ASI running simulations. Obviously preventing this has a higher priority than preventing scenarios of a lower severity.

>Scenarios which could mean indefinite suffering:

>1. ASI programmed to maximize suffering
>2. Alien species with the goal of maximizing suffering
>3. We are in a simulation and some form of "hell" exists in it
>4. ASI programmed to reflect the values of humanity, including religious hells
>5. Unknown unknowns

>Worse than death scenarios are highly neglected. This applies to risks of all severities. It seems very common to be afraid of serial killers, yet I have never heard of someone with the specific fear of being tortured to death, even if most people would agree that the latter is worse. This pattern is also seen in the field of AI: the "killer robot" scenario is very well-known, as is the paperclip maximiser, but the idea of an unfriendly ASI creating suffering is not talked about as often.

>The dilemma is that it does not seem possible to continue living as normal when considering the prevention of worse than death scenarios. If it is agreed that anything should be done to prevent them then Pascal's Mugging seems inevitable. Suicide speaks for itself, and even the other two options, if taken seriously, would change your life. What I mean by this is that it would seem rational to completely devote your life to these causes. It would be rational to do anything to obtain money to donate to AI safety for example, and you would be obliged to sleep for exactly nine hours a day to improve your mental condition, increasing the probability that you will find a way to prevent the scenarios. I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this dilemma and if you think there are better ways of reducing the probability.

Honestly you can't really discuss anything vaguely related to free will morality or ethics here, especially when half of these fucking retards quote the Bible or Guenon. They will literally ignore anything other than strawman arguments or basedjaks, most remain openly anti-science or apologist, the other half can't even follow along with basic fucking 3rd grade level conversation

>>20511142
>what does this even mean?
If you weren't ESL you would probably understand it

I'm not going to elaborate though. You'll just type some more nonsensical inane bullshit anyway

>>20479121
Are you fucking stupid? No, seriously, I want to know how you completely missed the point of my first post just to state some inane nonsense. You didn't affirm anything you stupid jackass, I told you to look up the "narrative self and the experiential self". There's plenty of neuroscientific studies and psychology literature dealing with this topic. You aren't refuting anything, you're just misunderstanding what the term "unconsciously" used in colloquial terms means. EVERYBODY who reads fiction, or watches films, or reads comic books, whatever the fuck experiences this

Yeah next time put a little bit more thought before you waste time writing out dumbfuck shit like this. The reading comprehension on this board is fucking non-existent. Maybe go back to your anime or your vidya games if you don't understand this