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It's no mystery that learning is hard for most people. The greater questions of conscience, existence, and our ability to reason all have a blindfold on them because of our lack of knowledge of what life means, or the definitive existence of God; which is spurred from the fact that we do not know what happens after death. In reality, death is just the matter of not living. To question is "difficult," ie, it takes effort, because we are not destined to question. If everyone were to stop questioning everything, they would reach enlightenment, and death, as soon as possible, because they would no longer go along the ardours that it takes to live, down to the most basic actions. This is the ultimate ultimatum of nihilism. Basically, you're retarded if you care about anything, and if you're really patrician, you should kill yourself. Stop chasing a meaning that is all about killing yourself if you're not going to do it, faggot.
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Props to anyone that can refute this flawless circular reasoning
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>>7222788
If there is objective morality, God exists.
There is objective morality.
Therefore God exists
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Is that Mahler cycle any good?
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Looking for AI romance. 2015-10-11 22:23:21 Post No.7222556
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Good evening /lit/,
I recently watched Ex Machina and have a craving for a book about a love between a human and an AI or an android.
The issue is, there is a massive collection of AI books and such. SO I was hoping someone here could narrow down the search with a good recommendation.
As I say, I am looking for something where a Human and an AI or android fall in love.
Ideally it will be a romantic book.
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>dumbing down the most important event in human history to a romance
Go watch Her or something for that kind of tripe.
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OP I really hope you're a woman, else this is just embarrassing.
Besides, machines can't love, they can merely simulate love.
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>>7222607
Her is an excellent rendition of this type of story.
It makes fantastic use of the three act format.
First the AI is less than human, then tries to become as human as possible.
Final act is the realisation that it will never be human.
Would highly recommend.
Also a very pretty movie.
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Hemingway's Brett wasn't a tragic, misguided figure as I feel he intended her to be.
Instead, she became the role model for all modern women.
Are there any other literary figures that were intended to portray negative traits, but instead became paragons of social empowerment and personal freedom?
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>>7222479
Emma Bovary. Milton's Satan, though that one is a bit more nuanced.
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>>7222479
Borderline and horrifically histrionic. Power-bitch. Then again, most of the men were pretty pathetic alcoholics.
I hardly think anyone sees her as a role model. And I do feel bad for Americans. The feminazi-superbitch meme seems to mostly apply to the yanks.
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>>7222479
hemmingway was a talentless hack
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Just picked up Shogun by James Clavell today, haven't read a book in the series before, and I wondered if I should go about it chronologically or by order of publication. What do you guys think?
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>>7222449
start with the greeks
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>>7222452
Wut
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Any ereader android app that doesn't look like shit?
Readmill used to be the best, then they sold out to Dropbox and killed it, Fabula by fastr is a nice replacement (aesthetics wise) but it sucks dick since you can't seem to read your own books, instead they shill you theirs.
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>>7222304
just buy an old used kindle on ebay, you will be happy for it.
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>>7222311
i already have one but sometimes its too cumbersome to carry with me all the time, especially if i have an unplanned break or something and I want to be able to read in the meantime, which is where my phone would fit in nicely
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>>7222304
FINALLY someone who understands me
Readmill was the fucking shit
try eReader Prestige, it's ok. Not as good as Readmill, but ok.
CELESTIAL
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HOW
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I AM A CHRISTPOSTER WHO IS BUTTHURT ABOUT THE FACT THAT NOTHING I BELIEVE IN IS BASED ON ANYTHING
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>2015
>not being editores mexicanos unidos master race
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>2015
>not producing original content
dat popol vuh tho
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>>7222202
Are they good editions or just inexpensive ones?
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>2015
>being Mexican
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I have an honest question, /lit/? Should I read Ulysses by myself without any external resources, or should I read an annotated version of Ulysses and delve into summaries and reading guides. Which of the two options would allow me to experience Ulysses the best?
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>>7222042
The first option. Then, when you feel like re-reading it, do the second option.
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>>7222042
Buy an unabridged, look up annotations on the web. Much more versatile.
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you shouldmake inconsequential minor decisions by yourself you retard
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Hey /lit/, what are some mind blowing Asimov's short stories other than the Last Question & the Dead Past?
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>>7221424
I like 9 Billion Names of God, although I don't know if it was mind-blowing. Ending gave me chills though.
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>>7221441
Hello my friend I think you misread the op but that story is brilliant thanks for reminding me
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>>7221441
Nine Billion Names of God is written by Arthur, m8.
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Genuine good parts - not a full list 2015-10-11 17:06:55 Post No.7221160
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Genuine good parts - not a full list
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437. Space is a million times more peaceful than the jungle. Have you ever wondered why? Because it's such a hostile environment to life, that nothing can survive there. A hint for the pacifists, as to what it would really take to finally achieve "world peace".
234. "Do you think people deserve a second chance?" — No, because there's no "second", no repetition; what comes next is always a new thing — and that's a good thing.
233. Either you are interested in the work, in which case money is irrelevant, or you are interested in money, in which case the work is irrelevant. There is no middle ground here.
229. It's always a bright and sunny day on planet earth, it's just a question of having enough elevation.
228. The obsessive hatred, bordering on psychosis, against products — i.e. against man-made objects — seems to be the hallmark of the pseudo-intellectual today. Hatred of consumption, a problem which no sane, healthy person has ever had. As if food and clothes, as if eating or dressing were bad. Such is the pseudo-intellectual's craving to appear to be raging at something, that he will rage at life's basic necessitities if need be.
166. Or "war crimes". It's okay to kill someone but not rape them. Subhuman logic.
157. A low blow is something unbecoming and distasteful, especially to a tall man. But when you are fighting short people — there's no way around it — you have to hit low.
135. Writer's block is bullshit. I've been writing for close to a decade now, and have not the faintest notion of the thing; it's merely a euphemism for slaves who want to make a living out of scribbling because they are too lazy to do anything else. If a writer has something to say, it comes out by itself, if he doesn't, then what's the point in WANTING to write? — Money, of course.
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>>7221160
>out of order
pls delete this
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holy shit these are fucking great, did a frog poster really come up with this shit? or are these some kind of aphorisms from like a middle tier conservative author no one reads anymore because he's not a marxist? i could imagine these coming from an orwell-tier, but right-wing, author.
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>>7221165
>233. Either you are interested in the work, in which case money is irrelevant, or you are interested in money, in which case the work is irrelevant. There is no middle ground here.
this is the stupidest thing I have ever read
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ITT, overrated pieces of garbage.
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>>7220799
Witnessed.
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>>7220798
nice b8 m8e. Moby-Dick is about the one book which pretty much the entirety of /lit/ agrees is based.
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Stirner is great read, but assumption of being able to escape spooks is wrong.
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Why?
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>two Stirner threads within 20 seconds
Spoopy
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>>7220694
Also the only assumption that can be made here is that you haven't understood anything from your 'great read'
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Who else here /free/?
How does it feel knowing that any problem with an idea can be instantly and confidently dealt with?
A constant state of rebellion with no need to pinned down to one idea. An orgy of ideals.
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>>7220692
sounds like an explicit kind of willing slavery
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Sounds pretty gay lol
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>>7220697
>freedom is slavery
Anyway, I'm more into Nietzsche, but Stirner also seems like an okay guy
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What does /lit/ have to say about Henry Darger and his book "In the Realms of the Unreal"?
Is there a particular abridged copy you would recommend?
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Sorry, not gonna read a book by a guy who thought that girls have penises.
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I can't seem to find a single published copy of In the Realms of the Unreal anywhere.
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>>7220118
It's not published, and from the excerpts that are floating around it doesn't seem that interesting anyway. The guy was just some mentally damaged idiot pleb LOL
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I don't visit /pol/ or anything like that but as somebody curious about history, I feel like I should ask: is there any genuine literary merit to Mein Kampf?
Has anyone on /lit/ read it? Does it give any insight into who Hitler was in terms of his motivations and personality or is it just a bunch of conspiratorial anti-semitic material? Is it actually worth reading if I'm interested in the history of Germany? Is there anything redeemable about the book that could be educational or at least psychologically revealing about the man himself?
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historical merit at the absolute very least
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>>7219895
Yeah, basically this. It should give insight into the nazi ideology that was building in prominence and maybe indicate how confident Hitler was but apart from that, I don't think I'd recommend it unless if you have a dissertation on Nazi-era Germany or something. Just download a PDF of it if you're curious.