i read your summary of Nick Land some time ago, quite impressive amount of research! i had simply dived in headfirst by reading Fanged Noumena years ago. you have an intuitive understanding of this dark (under)world that humanity inhabits...
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daliwali
1 year ago
rice reveal... ricing linux is really just vanitas but for nerds. the smartest programmer that ever lived used a completely stock Ubuntu desktop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYE2Urp1n8s
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letslearntogether
1 year ago
As for the journal entry...Indeed, there are so many inversions/perversions of Truth within society that it can be hard to see past them sometimes...
letslearntogether
1 year ago
...emphasis on violent competition rather than peaceful cooperation, meaningless notions of "rank" or "status" rather than true equality, taking by force in order to entertain personal wants rather than freely giving to fulfill other's genuine needs, hoarding rather than sharing, tearing down rather than lifting up, and so on.
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letslearntogether
1 year ago
In a similar way, sins are prisons built upon fear. Pride is often a cover for insecurity, while greed and lust can be futile attempts at countering a sense of lack and loss, however contradictory that might seem upon the surface. Temptation itself is to mistake hell for a heaven, and thereby become trapped in it.
letslearntogether
1 year ago
Therefore, living as Christ still means persecution, for it is difficult to survive outside of a society that would constantly compel one to sin. However, there is incredible beauty and joy in sincerely trying to be steadfast in virtue amidst the chaos and pain. It brings forth an Agapic Love that is ineffable.
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letslearntogether
1 year ago
This Agapic Love can only be lived. It is known experientially, not merely "intellectualized" about. This is the true "gnosis".
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daliwali
1 year ago
good call-out, i had originally intended for the eyes to track the camera but then you would never be able to see around the eye.
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letslearntogether
1 year ago
I care about people, though I cast out any destructive spirits that motivate them. Even the turning of the wheel of samsara is sustained by the three poisons of ignorance, greed, and hatred...all of which are transformed by cultivating wisdom, generosity, and kindness. Thus, our existence is purposeful: to become like Christ.
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eastathenaeum
1 year ago
I seldom agree with your conclusions, but I like how well thought out they are. Too many others like going online just to foam at the mouth and post over-simplified rage bait memes about it. It's refreshing to see someone capable of critical thinking, so keep writing.
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daliwali
1 year ago
@eastathenaeum thanks, ppl should be more civil in public. i state from the outset that my goal is not to convince anyone, but to share my worldview, and i also want to learn what others think.
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letslearntogether
1 year ago
"Not quite content with leaving their own home in ruins, the space monke attempt to colonise a planet symbolic of war..." At that point, I turned off Animal Planet and thought, "If it will redirect military spending into terraforming research that could be adapted towards ecological restoration, then maybe there is a silver lining there?"
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letslearntogether
1 year ago
To be honest, I'd rather not have a Star Wars program preamble to another Cold War...*sigh* Well, at least there are no Martian societies to raid for slaves...As always, interesting document ΩΩΩΩΩΩ.
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letslearntogether
1 year ago
...I know this underwater, but my first thought was Cydonia...Just trying to interpret why the death chime sounded.
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daliwali
1 year ago
your interpretation is as valid as mine, i took the same approach of just receiving signals from my brain. my take is that we go alone on a dangerous and risky path just for some symbolic achievement, after which only death (optionally rebirth) proceeds.
psychicnewborn
1 year ago
cydonia because its orange and there are cnidarians which kinda sounds like cydonia
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I feel particularly called out by the coonfiger image on your "Modern Software Sucks" article.
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daliwali
1 year ago
once you get foot pedals to control the KVM switch for your Beowulf cluster, it's ogre...
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omnipresence
1 year ago
One must experience the bliss of changing workspaces with one of those logitech shift knobs.
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letslearntogether
1 year ago
While a picture may be worth a thousand words, "ease of use" β "usefulness".
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i like your library... based and brain-pilled. thoughts on calhoun's "mouse utopia"?
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lionbunni
1 year ago
Haha, thank you! Calhoun's study is unnerving to say the least, but overpopulation in nature is typically regulated by factors like resource scarcity, disease, etc. Which were mostly controlled for in the experiment. The closest human comparison was Kowloon, which had a high population density and infant mortality rate, but people could leave the city and demographic reports are questionable. Avoid Calhoun's Utopia!
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...and particularly prescient considering the connections between Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, Curtis Yarvin, et al.
The "fourth industrial revolution", "social impact investing", and "effective accelerationism" are being used to rationalize the creation of "network states" filled with "smart cities" as a form of "technofeudalism"/"IT-backed authoritarianism"/a dystopian "technocracy".
Meanwhile, "conservatives" (through "Project 2025") and "neo-nazis" (through "The Great Replacement" ideology) are being treated as the "useful idiots" for bringing that plan to fruition within the U.S...a "world in chains" scenario shortly thereafter.
yeah, i deeply despise living in the timeline where the NYT is interviewing moldbug on the trajectory of statesia. The depressing part being not that they are interviewing him, but that they are right to do so. As for those concepts being used as rationalisation, i don't think they are. Lying about what you're doing is different from rationalising it...
and i doubt many of the critters in question are coherent enough to actually have values in any meaningful sense. They're not being duped into cooperating with the technocapital singularity, they're profiting myopically and they do not have any non-myopic goals to be betrayed.
As for the neo-nazis, i don't think they deserve quotation marks. They are what they are and so they too may get their temporary boons. Sure, they'll be disenfranchisedand in time shredded, but fascism has always been a death-cult and as benjamin astutely noted, they aren't being tricked by aestetics, *the aesthetics is all they care about*.
The outer-right trifecta, if things go by Land's design will doom the rest of us *before* they start tearing out each other's throats, though pythia will not care about the order in which her blood-sacrifice was spilled. Dreadful. The degree to which these freaks fascinate me is not worth the pains of living in a world in which they are worth writing about. Such worlds are fragile.
But thanks! information's important to not be caught off-guard and lose battles that mustn't be lost. Run fast, bite hard, save what needs saving and kill what tries to kill you