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I don't know this book but if it includes rational actors be aware that the idea of rational actors was a big mistake in economics

>>9454468

Can you expand on that

>>9454491
Well I've only read a tiny amount of economics. What I know is that they used to think people were rational and self-interested, and economic models were made with that in mind.
After research in psychology, maybe sociology, they found out this was wrong. See Daniel Kahneman for example.

The book called "the economics anti-textbook" talks about this and more stuff such as asymmetry in information (i.e. consumers do not always have the same information available about products).

If I thought women could write at all for most of history, never mind well, I might believe this.
But I'm not historically illiterate, so I don't.

Why, what if we're all women?

What if I'm a woman? What if YOU'RE a woman?

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I'm a girl on the inside

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There's a pretty good mini-series with Charles Dance playing Korellen. It's worth checking out.

>What other sci-fi books should I read now?

There's a good reason ACFL is so beloved by philosophy majors. It partly inspired the Fallout games too.

>>9454161

>kino

This meme needs to die. Its low IQ slang.

>>9454161
not for nothing is the ending where everyone ascends to godhood (like Greg Bear's "Blood Music") known as the Childhood's End ending.

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How did I get here?

>>9454013
Shitty one hit wonder. Never did figure out what a haver was.

Is this a TBK reference?

>>9453751
Digitally no, but a synthetic construct capable of recreating the complex chemical interactions between neurons is conceptually possible

>>9453755
And why do you think that it is digitally impossible?

>>9453771
Well, impossible is maybe an overstatement, but it would require a flat retarded amount of processing power. The logistics of the system, even if boiled down to simple action-potential emulation and controlled in binary, having to process literally billions of these interactions consistently on an electronic processing system would kill it. Even allowing for the heat to be dissipated, the RAM requirement would be prohibitive. It gets even worse when you consider that human brains don't work according to machine logic and our information storage and retrieval systems are disasters according to normal programming conventions, to say nothing of how our brains interpret sensory information.

Better to directly adopt the specialized organic electrochemical process directly, since we're much closer to being able to do that through recent breakthroughs in producing human organs in a lab.

>>9453704
Those ideas aren't created by Ligotti.

>>9453939


no but a lot of Rust's ideas are, I didn't say all of them, most of the philosophical pessimism is Ligotti's, just reworded

>>9453704
All circles are two dimensional.

writing is not really a way to make money unless you plan to church out shitty stuff that sucks, be a literature professor then you can write impenetrable chin stroking shit no one will read

>>9453514
>I'm scared to pursue my dreams.
There's your answer.

But seriously, if you're not a prole you shouldn't be writing. Keep your 9-to-5 and just write if you want to write.

>>9453527
Well, after much deliberation, my plan is to move to Maine, work as a lobster fisher or something akin, and write. I want to escape the hedonistic environment that I'm tethered to and dedicated my life to literature, even if it doesn't pay the bills. I suppose I'll become a starving artist. But that's infinitely more fulfilling than being a wage cuck.

Code to make apps

Books are a dying art

>>9453471
Homecoming, topos, phusis, mythological deconstruction of ordinary life, etc. etc.

>>9453479
That's not true, you can write self-help and cooking books. Those seem to the only really popular genres left.

Bald/balding dudes get laid all the time. Its all in your head.

get a job

>>9453397
Better Never to Have Been by David Benatar

>>9453374
John Kveksit by Cervantes

>>9453383
I'll have to read that right after Berry London

>>9453374
lazarillo de tormes
The Swindler (El buscon)

>>9453343
Another quality frog post

>It was only a fin whale the whole time. I guess it was more of a Moby Clit.
Never understood this part

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>As the doctor approached him with a severe expression, he guessed the prognosis alright. The paramedics had been too late, he would most certainly have to say a farewell to his arms

>>9453010
>Jacques le Fataliste et son maître
>Candide
>Julie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse

>>9453010
Those three books aren't memes though, they're literary masterpieces unlike trash like Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest.

Tristram Shandy
Sorrows of Young Werther
Justine

>>9453035

Fucking thank you for recommending Tristram Shandy, it's so under-mentioned on /lit/.

One of the others should be either Clarissa or Gulliver's Travels though.

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>all atheists will burn in hell for being worshippers of Satan

>>9452619
"Take the redpill"

>>9452619
Things I wish were real:
Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, God, the Holocaust

>>9452519
she looks like a dude

>>9452524
>Camus sucked her cock
>she looks like a dude

>Cannibal Corpse - Fuck Off to /mu/ with Your Shit Thread Faggot

>Cradle of Filth - Sage

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>>9452149
TV Girl - Who Really Cares (Gravity's Rainbow is even mentioned in the first track)

>>9452161
All the arts should be welcome on /lit/ faggot