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Try reading something worthwhile next time

>>9745642
this guys explanation for wearing a bandana really bothered me so i haven't read any of his work.

>>9745653
Why should anyone have to justify the mask

ADHD isn't real
if you lived fifty years ago your parents would have beat some fucking patience into you
grow up, sit down, and start reading a fucking book cover to cover
if you can't do that just kill yourself if you have the attention span for that

>>9745616
get fucked

>>9745603
read a book you're actually interested in
read on an ereader
let something run in the background, like a podcast or a lets play or something.
get a fidget toy to occupy your free hand

>>9745562
What if grasshoppers had red assholes?

Besides, your (and most's) conception of AI is retarded

>>9745570
idc what you (think you) know about AI. refute universal darwinism

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>>9745578
Not the anon you responded to, but most self aware AI scenarios seem to ignore how complex awareness is and the fact that we have yet to fully understand it.
You can't create this shit by accident and it would be ridiculously expensive to create a software that would simulate it, not to mention that it would serve no real purpose outside of, maybe, keeping company.

Thinking that machines will reach the point where they think like us is beyound retarded. Sure, they will become more intelligent, but intelligence=/=independent thought, awareness and emotions.
kys

>>9745395
i write with a fucking pen so i wouldn't know

Here you go mate: …

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OP here: I need a serious answer though. I see it in books sometimes. Does that mean it's not a big deal? Do people even care?

SHE DIED HUGGING HER CHILDREN? WHAT MOTLEY ASSEMBLAGE OF SOAP OPERA BULLSHIT WAS THIS NOVEL? AND LET US NOT FORGET THE PREGNANT WOMAN HOBBLING ABOUT WITH A FUCKING HEAD.

I would love to know French so I could read Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Erckmann-Chatrian.

What are the best classic french works besides les miserables and candide?

>>9745305
Definitely.

>>9745305
he's really hard to understand and he wrote in like 1650 or something and science can't prove god exist and he's also jewish so it's probably a waste of time

>>9745305
Yes.

>>9745250
>Why yall niqqas accept that tha Greek gods were explanations for phenomena

Not necessarily. They could have been demons.

>>9745250
What! who thinks that? out yourself fools!

>>9745250
they were bicameral men

>>9745229
Window seat so you can stare out over the world contemplatively

Aisle, obviously.

>>9745229
the quran

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Seriously, what else is there, but the tunnel, underworld, sot-weed factor, women and men, petersburg, moby-dick, JR, Against the Day, MD? or are you guys just useless pricks?

okay, so you're all fucking plebs.

>>9745204
>actually needs help finding door-stoppers
>calls others plebs

take your pomo shit and shove it.

yes. wish i bought it honestly. this book will change your life. i'm not sure how you found it, but i love you.

>>9745219
Oh, I can give it to you if you wish.

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>>9745232
wow really? i love you. my throwaway is [email protected]

or you can upload it anywhere else. finding that book in college was the most refreshing feeling in the world. i drew parallels between eastern + western motifs/philosophy but this book was one of the first which addressed the topic. all i have is this random page floating around on my computer.

comparing ancient beliefs and tracing history with geography is a must. everything didn't begin with hellenistic philosophy. western civilization isn't isolated.

ex: buddhism - stoicism - hinduism

people like to compare within, but not across. they are missing out on something very big.

>>9745119

He's a rambler, not a writer.

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they are thoughtful but will never convince anyone of anything

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>>9745131
2) Somebody who talks incessantly about all kinds of crap and just goes on and on and on and on and on and .... well you get the idea!

>>9745098
>look angry in the before pictures
>look happy in the after pictures

wtf I love postmodernism now

>>9745104
>look like a man in the before pictures
>look like a man in the after pictures

wtf I love biological sex now

>>9745122
True patricians would fuck both.

>>9745071
whatever lol
it's all good
yolo anon

>>9745071
Maybe start with Ivan Ilyich. Its hard to keep a good schedule with w&p and karenina. You'll probably finish it much later than you planned because its so long and you'll interest may bounce around.

But depends on what kind of reader you are I guess.

AK is not as hard, it's just long. Make a character list or map (if that kind of thing helps you) and have at it.

Haven't read it but would be interested in hearing about more critiques of the Protestant work ethic. Francis seems to be slacking on that end.

>>9745008
Never heard of it/him, but The Abolition of Work by Bob Black is pretty interesting.

>>9745067
marx's son-in-law

>>9744926
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Literature!
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>>9744940
You sound like a real jerk.

>>9744926
Just because Norm's entire shtick is an accute sense of normalcy and pushing past it doesn't make him /lit/.