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>>7895331
>>>catalog

>>7895331
No

>>7895331
Absolutely not

because if they gain intelligence, sentience and emotion then they should be granted the rights of humans. ROBOT MARRIAGE IS GOING TO BE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE OF THE NEXT GENERATION.

Because you don't want your shit to break.

Because the worth of a robot is greater than the majority of simple tasks a robot would theoretically be asked to accomplish. A robot may not understand this and complete a low-priority order regardless of a danger to itself.

Telling a robot to go from point A to point B might result in it wading through a swamp that ruins it, but the robot - without the third law - would be programmed to follow all orders without considering that maybe the human might decide the order wasn't worth it after realizing what it would do to the robot

https://archive.org/stream/populargovernme00maingoog#page/n254/mode/2up
H.S. Maine - Four Essays on Popular Government

It's a history of the evolution of the various forms of government that are called Democracies.

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here you go you great plonker

>>7895260
Thanks

>>7895263
Currently reading Brave New World. Lots of interesting titles, thanks.

>>7895181
Something rather incoherent that has a theme tieing it together.
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra.

The Sound and the Fury

it is literature. all written word is

He's not a genius but I still read it twice.

Cash is alright, I liked the feel of his prose, but he's not especially a genius or anything

>>7895158

He's the James Joyce of the west

Is that a dog or one of his victims?

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>>7895090
dog

>>7895077
can someone please fucking explain why he wore a bandana

>>7895063
inb4 "but I like to feel da pages!" go suck a dick you humongous feminine faggot

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they even have manga

i mean if you still use paper at this point it's like you're using a tape player when you could use high quality wav files for music instead

>>7895063
which model

>>7895046
I don't hate King but I think his writing advice in that is pretty bad. I'll take Vonnegut's rules as a framework over that one any day: https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/04/03/kurt-vonnegut-on-writing-stories/

the art of dramatic writing - lajos egri
the breakout novelist - donald maass
shakespeare for screenwriters - evenson

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Monkeys with Typewriters - Scarlet Thomas
Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose.

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>>7895010
sounds a little broad op

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Seinfeld is pretty postmodern desu.

I despise that book and anarchism so if you like the latter it's possible that you'd like the former.

It's to motorcycle maintenance what Moby Dick is to whale biology.
If you're looking for the Zen, it's like reading trough the entire phone book in order to find one name.

>>7894996
Yeah I’m just 20 years old and am in sort a rebellious face where I kinda want to just live that starving artist lifestyle not caring about possessions etc - but will probably end up a corporate lawyer though - I just really wana enjoy this face while it lasts and try make the most of it you know

Everyone in university is a hipster cunt and makes for awful roommates

>>7894995
I haven't gotten that far, I'm still an undergraduate studying at a JC. It's a completely different experience when you've got one foot in academia and the other in "the real world". It's made me far more moderate than liberal and fairly cynical of humankind. Most people capitalize by exploiting students in my condition and I do shit work for little pay.

>>7894995
Do you have stories?

Just finished Miss Lonelyhearts, about to start the day of the locust.
books I want to read soon:

>Death of Ivan Ilych, Hadji Murad
>Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>The Big Sleep
>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
>Stories of J F Powers
>Flannery O'connor short stories
>Oblivion

>>7894980
Infinite Jest rules.
>>7895012
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man reads like what lucid sleepwalking must feel like

I'm reading Absalom, Absalom! Then to -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
For The Time Being
A Light In August
People's History of the US
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality

>Welcome to NightVale by Joseph Fink
>14 by Peter Clines
>A dirty Job by Christopher More
>Velveteen vs. The Junior Super-Patriots by Seanen McGuire

Their covers are phenomenal

And the binding isn't bad either

Not all of their translations are good. The ones for Mann, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy are top notch, though.

>>7894976
How about those for the french novelists, Dumas Hugo etc, or the real classics, Homer VIrgil Dante etc?

No it's a boat

dafuq?

>>7894970
Enschuldigen Sie, bitte?

>>7894949
Because you have no friends.

I picked up this book some 5 years ago and it's the only book I have ever put down and never finished. I liked the WW1 parts a bit.

>>7894968
Reading Céline at 10? That's ambitious.