/lit/ - Literature

>>9688966
>So the interesting thing about code "being an argument" is that code predates the compiler. By a lot. In this sense, the legal system is proto-AI. We've just replaced the human compiler (the judge) with even more code (the compiler itself). It's not yet properly interfaced with us, but remains subordinate to the legal code.

>We don't resent the legal system, while we would resent the judgement of, say, a king who might do one thing one day and another the next. Because the distributed nature of the legal system (many courts, many judges) also diffuses our resentment of inconsistent justice by likewise distributing it.

>Now in terms of computer code, a non-anthropomorphizable system (though intelligent) totally bypasses our resentment circuits. It just becomes nature. And we are wired to respond to nature's injustice in terms of resignation to fate. Social Darwinism is already an easy pill to swallow. The biggest mindfuck played on us was confusing the economic ecology called the "market" with nature.
All this. To resent in some sense is, psychologically speaking, to live - to desire and want and so on. To meme, or not to meme.
>pure cynicism girardfag kys
>you're not wrong inner self
>*self-flagellates*

Liberal free-market democracy allows for the greatest amount of flex vis-a-vis these desires. Indeed, if anything, it allows so much flex that it becomes like a gigantic net that swallows us up before we have even realized it. And we begin thinking of ourselves as being on the outside when the fact is that we're actually on the inside and thrashing around. Although every once in a while someone will come along and somehow manage to have a higher sense of what is going on, be able to postulate net-being from non-net being or para-net-being or whatever.

Of course Capital reads books too. The great irony of continental theory is how it is left-leaning thinkers who wind up theorizing far more about how Capital works than the (historically) entrepreneurial right, which wanted to know how it worked and not so much what "it" ontologically was. And now the polarities have flip-flopped on each other so as to make left/right simply the wings of a system, as Baudrillard knew.

It is basically impossible to think of a world in which use the term That's Capitalist! in the same way That's Racist! is used: that is, as a semantic bludgeon. The zombie apocalypse is always more easily imagined. Less hate, less idpol, more awareness of how the metal skull with its softly glowing circuitry is showing through the skin.

Metaphysics > politics. Just raising the general mimetic IQ of the general population would be enough for me. But some smart legal theory wouldn't go amiss either.

>>9689079
Beautiful find. Thank ye kindly.
>Emphasis on the teacher-student relationship as opposed to independent knowledge seeking.
Huge stuff.

Going to check that paper out now, catch up with you sexy fucks later. Thanks as always for the conversation.

To learn by example is to submit to authority. ...By watching the master and emulating his efforts in the presence of his example, the apprentice unconsciously picks up the rules of the art, including those which are not explicitly known to the master himself.

>It is only if someone can 'do', has learnt, is master of, suchandsuch, that it makes sense to say he has had this experience.