Message from @MrSally
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I think I would like to empirically prove that history runs in cycles because morons forget shit.
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.
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.
Maybe it's the "alleluiah" part.
😅
Nothing wrong with hedonism in post-scarcity land
That's the whole point.
I'm not so sure.
Yeah, there's the risk of degeneracy or whatever, but at that point I wouldn't worry at all.
I mean, yeah I'll be hooked into an endless techno-dopamine inter-circuit injection so I won't worry about anything ever
But I don't think actual criminals would be a problem when a self-improving AI has improved things to that point.
Utopians are the only good people
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.
You r gey
Fuck utopia.
Have to slave my wage guys tomorrow. Goodnight.
nighty
Nighty night
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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.
"Always room for improvement" is technically not true. Everything has a limit.
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.
and so our supercomputer world would change appearance every decade as styles that originate in human minds change.
sleep tight comrade
>everything has a limit
>there must be an end point
Those are the words of drug addict
<:porky:315615014751043588> did someone say drug addict?
*why progress guys, progress has it's limits*
Progress does have a limit though. The idea that we are limitless is another religious thing.
But as long as progress can be made, I embrace it.
It's almost like we're
wait, let me think of a word
progress.... hmmmmmm
progressives!
I am a rather progressive person, yes sir.
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.
I also wish the Wobblies would come back.
And the De Leonists.
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.
I feel like your egoism is poisoning your objectivity.
Really? I think it's pretty rational egoism.