/lit/ - Literature

>>12019564
apparently there's one in progress, don't know what the current status is. start with the Accelerate reader. this is assuming that you have already bought some speed, torn out your heart, &c.

>>12019608
harsh, but fair
>also exceedingly nice list. definitely OP-tier. i am strongly tempted to put this post in a later thread re: the status of flow charts, or at least until we have one. i hope you don't mind.

>>12019618
better living through chemistry

>>12019912
>Hegelian Spirit never had a soul.
i would disagree here, i just think that Dostoyevsky's vision is just as summoning, if not more so. and what stands behind him is no joke either. this comes from a guy who doesn't go to church but is increasingly sold on a lot of things i used to sneer about.

>Nothing human makes it out alive
the inhuman is going to suffer too, warrants mentioning. we will all suffer. lots of it. again, i'm not saying Angels with Flaming Swords and guys with books. just that as time goes on it just makes more sense. it well and truly does.

>Proceeding from the assumption that teleoplexic hyperintelligence won't crank up the meat grinder and spit fleshbots out like wood chips first. It's the end of the line.
no question. i would prefer that not to be the case, and i don't think there is anything like philosophy that can realistically side with what may not only be inevitable but a built-in feature of the process. i still don't *like* it tho. i would regard it as being a tremendous failure. Land, it warrants mentioning, does not share this sense, and from the perspective of technological advance it all goes under the name of Great Filter. but i'm sentimental still.

>Of course we try to eradicate the infection - subcutaneous ethical injection - an antibiotic incapable of troubling the virus.
yes.

>Academics problematise.
philosophy in general does this, for reasons which become increasingly arcane (or hyperstitionally sound).

good post, this.

>>12019921
Ernst Junger, The Forest Passage

>>12019947
i'm okay with this. to paraphrase Omar Little, and send him on a walk through Castalia, it's all in the Glass Bead Game. but it's quite a game, that game that aspires to music.

>>12019958
yup. the terrible paradox of it.

>>12020048

>“Women turning women on, women turning machines on, machines turning machines on.” (Amy Ireland, “Black Circuit”).

>>12020077
the Buddha did nothing wrong either.

mildly off topic, but have you guys watched the Peterson interview w/British GQ? he looks as good as he ever has in that one. the interview made my blood boil on the first watch and on the second one i just thought J-Pete was looking crispy fresh throughout. it's a funny thing: the battle sucks, but he keeps getting better and better at doing it, and in the long run more of what he is saying trickles out into the public square.

reposting this beautiful piece of art again because i have no context for it but because Beautiful Art Fuck Yeah.

>>12010209
philosophically, there will always be more room for *creativity,* and clearly some kind of Rectification of Names (or de-Rectification) may also be in order as a part of *adapting to the needs of a mechanological society,* which are *not* those of a political society. political societies can absolutely run on a hierarchy of CTRLers, CTRL, drones, and Desire/Capital/Happiness Points or whatever else. human beings are the programmable, programmed, and programming species, and our hilarious inability to come to some sense of What Did Language Mean By This only makes this breathtakingly clear. again, it's not hard to connect Derrida/Foucault/Baudrillard to Land in this way: we are coming off of the society of the Spectacle (and the text) and into the world of the Code: automatic, smoothly functional, and all else. it really is the Matrix.

but it's not *society* that needs to be worked on, it's *people.* people in their functioning, in their unique, skilled, individualistic practices, such that a society of acrobats rather than a society of drones is the result. i'm happy with Daoist sages or Confucian scholars too, that would be great. but in general just a practicing, self-disciplinary, ascetic planet with a moral metaphysics to go along with would be a very fine look in my mind, and would starve NPC politics to boot.

>>12010230
this. it's going to be a huge, huge thing. it already is, obviously, that's exactly what Insano-Leftist politics is all about. and even in a mechanological society you are going to have your profile, and all the rest...

Uncle Nick is right: Optimize for Intelligence *is* the way. it absolutely is. the problem right now is the absence of anything like a civilization *worth optimizing for,* and, as such, Defenestration, Yes! becomes the sadly understandably default position. but those are problems and questions for our own Department of Speculative Economics, or Cosmotech. it's Peterson's thing as well, of course. but it's this thing too, with a slightly different intellectual genealogy. the despair is *necessary* to flush out the *politics.* after that there has to be something better, something hopeful.

also beautiful art b/c i really wanted to share this one and i have no context for it, so i'll put it here.