/lit/ - Literature

all these math nerds in this thread with n's and shit trying to make up shit that means nothing except for raw symbolism created from shit to try to make logic positive. in reality this paradox and all others btfo logic maths and basically our entire reality because it's a fucking paradox and there is no solution, idiots.

also i get major deja vu whenever this thread comes up (this is the third time I've seen it). anyone else?

So, assuming that we're accelerating toward a world in which computational power and synthetic biological creation will fast render the average human being not only useless, but outclassed and almost wasteful, what is the best thing for an individual to do in today's society, right now? I used to think that studying the humanities (literature in particular) was the best asset to someone afflicted with this sort of historicity-ending notion of defeatism, but I find it harder and harder to rationalize studying what's come in the past, if they were the same people, of the same race and of the same very human faults, that will make us redundant and useless in the future. What kind of higher meaning can we find in our own flaws, that makes it worth reading someone whose literary survival is dubious, random at best? If we understand that humanity as a whole is going to meet its match in the face of a singularity future soon, and that everything done since the beginning of written thought will soon be revealed for what it is, flawed, limited by the short lifetime of the individual, and broken by necessity through the labors of the living, what's the motivate any of us to care about it? Also, when we reach that point in time, what will there be left for us to do? Stay flawed, and live in a fantasy world as if saying goodbye to our flaws wouldn't be the exact goal we wrote and thought for in the past? Anything other than that would be banally masochistic at best, and irrational and dumbfounding at worst. Freedom, infinity of thought, and a reach beyond death are close at hand, and come closer every day. With the few years, decades, at most a century that rest between you, O litizen, and the future, what do you think is right to do?

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