/lit/ - Literature

>>12335464
reading jacques ellul at my software engineering job
not working
listening to electronic music, browsing wikipedia
boss drum by the shamen, olav h. hauge

>>12232958
probably not. consciousness != ultimate power. if spawning consciousness could happen (it cant), then it probably already did in the dark recesses of some google lab and was deleted by mistake.

machines will never be conscious, though. they'll only be wind-up puppets that look conscious. i dont care what turing said, appearance of the thing is not the thing itself.

>>12173390
werner herzog: a guide for the perplexed

>>12048943
Permutation City is supposed to be good but I haven't read it yet myself.

a possum is outside eating spoiled vegetables in the garden
i’m on the couch listening to digital dance.
the cat is on the couch too. not quite touching me but close.
tonight it was foggy. i went to the gas station to get some chips. i wore a hoodie, listening at first to terence mckenna before switching to the undertale ost.
pretty sure the clerk knew i was high. got some good writing in, read some tao lin, now i'm relaxing here in the dark listening to music.

it was a good night.

i achieved the dream career i wanted as a kid but im not happy. so now im trying to achieve the dream career i wanted as a young adult. it won't make me happy.

software > yellow magic orchestra

my favorite authors are douglas coupland, neal stephenson, and thomas pynchon

>>11825026
pedro paramo
>>11825006
infinite jest

hey guys let's all be wageslaves forever and let the globalists control the very fabric of reality

4chan is my connection to the literary world