/lit/ - Literature

>>21665183
Doesn't (the venerable) Ted's whole argument basically rest on "whut if systems are like russell's paradox?"
what if, in fact, things are not that complicated/chaotic and really play out on identifiable patterns, albeit complex ones, like how they found out most leaves and flowers generate based on the golden ratio + certain initial conditions (genetic or whatever)
that would essentially mean we CAN steer systems from the inside with incomplete knowledge

even if it doesn't play out this time and we collapse, 1000 years in the future the same things might happen again when larpers on 4chan 2 try to recreate the great American empire and its Faustian drive or whatever
Ted shrugs this off as "Idk, we can't do nuffin about people in the future" which is probably true, but unhelpful to warn said people with

what I'm saying is, the whole Anti-Tech movement lacks a metaphysics for why tech is really bad / not inevitable and why humans (or even life) are special or good that isn't trumped by some kind of antinatalism

>>16411286
>also his father
I don't know about this last part desu. Can we get a Greek source on this

>utilitarians are hypocrites so somehow this disclaims their principle

>>9553757
>reading the gangbang scene as a 12 year old