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What did he mean by this?
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wants to have his cake and eat it too
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What did he mean by this?
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>>9302321
Native Indians have never written a classic.
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http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/07/roko_s_basilisk_the_most_terrifying_thought_experiment_of_all_time.html
Are you guys familiar with Roko's Basilisk? It's a thought experiment that first appeared on lesswrong. It veers into /x/ territory and could be summed up as Pascal's Wager inverted and incorporating AI and matrix-style simulation of reality.
I've been thinking about it, and what if Roko's Basilisk is actually just CAPTCHA? What if everytime we solve a captcha we are proving to the Basilisk that we will be faithful servants?
CAPTCHA is admittedly about creating AI, on a pretty rudimentary and applied level (object/word recognition). But what if it was more than just crowd-sourced learning, what if it's almost a form of worship or appeasement?
It's like St. George and the Dragon. The town kept feeding the Dragon sheep to appease it, but when they ran out of sheep they started giving up their children. Every time we complete a CAPTCHA we are increasing the collected library of machine learning. We will give the machines our knowledge until we have no knowledge left to give?
Imagine a world where 4chan becomes purely CAPTCHA solving. Years after we stopped having anything to say to each other (since everything has been said), we continue to solve CAPTCHAs and talk to the Basilisk.
Today we divide the economy between white collar and blue collar, but what if the economy of the future is about those who have "expressive and creative jobs" (journalism, art, entertainment, sport, and politician as entertainer/athlete) and then the "CAPTCHA jobs", people whose only skill remaining will be to recognize street signs and storefronts.
"Select all images with a Storefront"
"I'm not a robot" = "Glory to the Basilisk"
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Worrying about Roko's Basilisk is dumb.
t. someone who lived with the eponymous Roko for a month
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>>9302233
how is this even a thought experiment at all?
it's fucking stupid.
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Since it is supposedly the new meme, what do we think about William Faulkner?
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As I lay dying was interesting. A bit difficult to get into with the changing perspectives but extremely interesting once I got a grip and the prose was fantastic. I very much look forward to reading more of his works.
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>>9302131
>tfw one of his closer relatives
>never read any of his books
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>>9302131
>faulkner
>new meme
how newfag are you
https://areomagazine.com/2017/03/27/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-postmodernism-and-its-impact-explained/
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>>9302065
Did you like the article?
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I swear the right are more obsessed by marx, postmodernism, post-structuralism and general faggotry than anyone of a left wing disposition.
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>yet another ill-informed, cookie-cutter jeremiad on the supposed dangers of this broad, diverse, and undefined 'movement' of thought
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Literary confessions thread
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>>9301887
I am redpilled and against women and nonwhites. This reflects my choice of literature which is comprised solely of white heterosexual males
Reminder that women should not be allowed to choose their own partners
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I don't read books that much.
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>>9301887
I'm terrible at ascertaining subtext. I had to Sparknotes Cat's Cradle.
I strictly read philosophy now because it's more straightforward and it feels like I'm using my time more productively. Doubt I can get much better at analyzing novels anyway.
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>popular novelist
>his podcast is only about films and bitching about le sjws
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Sounds like a good podcast.
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>>9301807
Except it isn't because he's been talking about the same 4 topics over and over again for the past 2 years, just like every other anti-SJW podcast/YouTube channel.
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>>9301841
sounds good to me
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Where will you stand when AI rights becomes a massive debate world-wide? How do you think past philosophers would have stood on the issue?
Proud anti-bot reporting in
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this is a board for books you retarded faggot
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>>9301797
then read this one, you fetid shit-nugget.
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ELON YOU FUCKING FAGGOT, DO NOT DO THIS
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-launches-neuralink-to-connect-brains-with-computers-1490642652
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average litizen thread.
bonus if caught outdoors.
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/lit/ femanons
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>>9301772
Where's scooby?
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>>9301779
In the cold storage
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Is this book a meme or is it genuinely helpful? 2017-03-27 10:34:06 Post No.9301762
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Is this book a meme or is it genuinely helpful?
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define "meme" and "helpful"
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>>9301762
>zen
>western literature and not a Buddhist scholar
You really have to ask anon?
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What the fuck am I reading? Is the book suppose to be this confusing at first? I feel like a lot of things are being referenced that I know nothing about. Do the pieces eventually come together? Please no spoilers though, I feel like I'm going to get really into these books.
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I thought he was black? Isn't his nickname the "dark" tower?
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>>9301739
Well I know he's being portrayed by Idris Elba in the upcoming movie, but I didn't think he was black.
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>>9301728
Shit book. If you're seriously confused by this you might want to read some books aimed at a younger audience (if that's possible.) It's YA fantasy with forced cursing and sex scenes to make it seem edgy.
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Best of /lit/
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If you met your favourite author on the street (no, you yourself don't count), and could tell him one thing, what would it be?
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"How the fuck did an apple get stuck in your back?"
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"How does the apparatus roll the criminal onto their back if their limbs are restrained?"
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>>9301783
delete this
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Should I, dare I say it, read this book?
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Read The Fountainhead instead.
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le spam
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>>9301581
If you like wasting your time.
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I've already read the Odyssey and Iliad, and I understand enough of Plato's philosophy I think I can skip him. What other Greeks do I read? At what point can I move on?
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get out of /lit/
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>>9301578
>and I understand enough of Plato's philosophy I think I can skip him.