Message from @MrSally

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2017-07-18 07:46:11 UTC  

I think I would like to empirically prove that history runs in cycles because morons forget shit.

2017-07-18 07:46:12 UTC  
2017-07-18 07:49:11 UTC  

The promise of technology is your best possible time in your life and more. Because your vigour and interest in life is only chemicals, and they can be modified so that your best memories are enhanced. There would, in cyborgs, be a feedback loop of pleasure, where the object of pleasure is enhanced, as well as the ability to experience it. It would be a hedonistic market with pleasure based economics.

2017-07-18 07:49:28 UTC  

This song just makes me think about how we have major societal systems in place today based on people from millennia ago being scared of where the sun went at night and worried that it was because god was mad at them.

2017-07-18 07:49:46 UTC  

Maybe it's the "alleluiah" part.

2017-07-18 07:50:05 UTC  

😅

2017-07-18 07:50:34 UTC  

Nothing wrong with hedonism in post-scarcity land

2017-07-18 07:50:42 UTC  

That's the whole point.

2017-07-18 07:50:48 UTC  

I'm not so sure.

2017-07-18 07:51:14 UTC  

Yeah, there's the risk of degeneracy or whatever, but at that point I wouldn't worry at all.

2017-07-18 07:52:42 UTC  

I mean, yeah I'll be hooked into an endless techno-dopamine inter-circuit injection so I won't worry about anything ever

2017-07-18 07:53:13 UTC  

But I don't think actual criminals would be a problem when a self-improving AI has improved things to that point.

2017-07-18 07:54:29 UTC  

Utopians are the only good people

2017-07-18 07:54:35 UTC  

You will be a quivering mass of 10,000 genitals, injecting super nerve enhancing drugs, plugged into a supercomputer with optimised pleasure software. It is not progress at all.

2017-07-18 07:54:39 UTC  

You r gey

2017-07-18 07:54:41 UTC  

Fuck utopia.

2017-07-18 07:54:46 UTC  

Have to slave my wage guys tomorrow. Goodnight.

2017-07-18 07:54:51 UTC  

nighty

2017-07-18 07:55:05 UTC  

Nighty night

2017-07-18 07:55:14 UTC  

<:pink:312036766825840640>

2017-07-18 07:55:19 UTC  

But I would think that would be the entire end point of a species, when they reach that point and never have to do anything ever again because "improvement" could never actually come.

2017-07-18 07:55:38 UTC  

"Always room for improvement" is technically not true. Everything has a limit.

2017-07-18 07:56:24 UTC  

I'd think the only improvements would be cosmetic, to better appeal to the sensibilities because aesthetic value will have taken a much higher position on peoples' minds.

2017-07-18 07:57:13 UTC  

and so our supercomputer world would change appearance every decade as styles that originate in human minds change.

2017-07-18 08:00:37 UTC  

sleep tight comrade

2017-07-18 08:00:39 UTC  

>everything has a limit
>there must be an end point
Those are the words of drug addict

2017-07-18 08:01:29 UTC  

<:porky:315615014751043588> did someone say drug addict?

2017-07-18 08:02:15 UTC  

*why progress guys, progress has it's limits*

2017-07-18 08:05:34 UTC  

Progress does have a limit though. The idea that we are limitless is another religious thing.

2017-07-18 08:05:56 UTC  

But as long as progress can be made, I embrace it.

2017-07-18 08:06:33 UTC  

It's almost like we're

2017-07-18 08:06:39 UTC  

wait, let me think of a word

2017-07-18 08:06:43 UTC  

progress.... hmmmmmm

2017-07-18 08:06:47 UTC  

progressives!

2017-07-18 08:06:59 UTC  

I am a rather progressive person, yes sir.

2017-07-18 08:08:51 UTC  

I would love for America to form a progressive coalition centered around a few core populistic left wing policies out of its wide array of leftist parties that can't agree on everything, but do agree on a few very important things.

2017-07-18 08:09:19 UTC  

I also wish the Wobblies would come back.

2017-07-18 08:10:14 UTC  

And the De Leonists.

2017-07-18 08:19:54 UTC  

Progress is not necessarily by our own hand, if the subject of progress changes. Everything changes. And by our hand or others, the forces that move the universe from simpler things to more complicated things will always transform and develop.

2017-07-18 08:20:12 UTC  

I feel like your egoism is poisoning your objectivity.

2017-07-18 08:24:32 UTC  

Really? I think it's pretty rational egoism.