/lit/ - Literature

>>19273207
>baby's breath

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>>18835707
This is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. Obviously, if you think of the Christian dogma as literal truth then you're going to be pissed. But if you see it as a made up belief system that helps humans navigate the fucked up world we are born into, then this kind of selective reading of Christian theology is a net positive for society. You're keeping the good stuff, but filtering out the retarded shit from thousands of years ago that makes millions of people miserable.

>>15653634
There's not a single reason to not be a Marxist and this thread is proof of that. Not a single logical argument.

Capitalism is an artificial general intelligence (AGI).

And I say this as a Marxist. Marx already knew this but of course at the time he didn't have the terminology we have now. Let me tell you about AGIs. Computer scientist are actively trying to find ways to make an AGI safe to implement. So far it is not safe because no matter the AGI's objective function, it would tend to do shit we don't want it to do. For example, it is proven that if you give it a simple objective function like collecting stamps, it will start consuming all our resources, eventually reaching the point where it will start to kill living organism to use their atoms to print more stamps. You can think of ways to avoid this but you'll probably fail since the scientific community still hasn't found one.

You see the problem we face now? We already built an AGI: capitalism. We know where this leads: complete resource repletion, out-of-control positive feedback loops, basically the AI apocalypse. In theory, we have no idea how to stop it an AGI. In practice, you should become a communist.

they hurt my peepee fren

I just finished reading Timeline by Michael Crichton. I love most of his work and other science fiction novels like The Three Body Problem, The Invincible, and Brave New World.

Do you have any recommendations in the same vein?

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