Political Discussions for "Adults"

OccultHawk · 05-15-2020, 06:14 PM

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Don't worry about it, the brochure says that the job that scientists have done has been incredible. The testing that’s been developed and being developed right now has been truly an amazing thing. It’s incredible what we’ve done together over a short period of time. Every day it gets better.

Goddamn it’s horrifying.

The Batlord · 05-15-2020, 06:26 PM

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Maoism has really been resonating with me recently.

You’re probably right about my blinders but I don’t care. China isn’t actively killing me. I believe I am methodically being murdered by capitalism. I want it rinsed from the earth the way I would want a pathogen removed from body. No holds barred.

On some level I totally understand as on some timeline we might be able to vote ourselves to a Danish model of some sort but clearly we're never going to be allowed/never have the mental wherewithal to even try to vote ourselves out of capitalism, so a drastic solution is necessary, but I've never seen a more drastic solution that produced ultimately desirable results. Revolutions, be they Russian, Chinese, French, Cambodian, whatever, are hampered by everything that hampers democracy and capitalism: people are short sighted, people are petty, people are power hungry, people are lazy, people are sheep, people are ****.

AI authoritarianism might be the only solution tbh.

WWWP · 05-15-2020, 06:32 PM

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On some level I totally understand as on some timeline we might be able to vote ourselves to a Danish model of some sort but clearly we're never going to be allowed/never have the mental wherewithal to even try to vote ourselves out of capitalism, so a drastic solution is necessary, but I've never seen a more drastic solution that produced ultimately desirable results. Revolutions, be they Russian, Chinese, French, Cambodian, whatever, are hampered by everything that hampers democracy and capitalism: people are short sighted, people are petty, people are power hungry, people are lazy, people are sheep, people are ****.

AI authoritarianism might be the only solution tbh.

OccultHawk · 05-15-2020, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

On some level I totally understand as on some timeline we might be able to vote ourselves to a Danish model of some sort but clearly we're never going to be allowed/never have the mental wherewithal to even try to vote ourselves out of capitalism, so a drastic solution is necessary, but I've never seen a more drastic solution that produced ultimately desirable results. Revolutions, be they Russian, Chinese, French, Cambodian, whatever, are hampered by everything that hampers democracy and capitalism: people are short sighted, people are petty, people are power hungry, people are lazy, people are sheep, people are ****.

AI authoritarianism might be the only solution tbh.

It’s better than idea I have. I’d vote for it with great trepidation though

OccultHawk · 05-15-2020, 06:52 PM

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Church

The Batlord · 05-15-2020, 06:59 PM

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As much as I can get down with that as an ideal, humanity is going to do what it's going to do and the instinct to breed is even stronger than the instinct for self-preservation so it's a pointless stance at the end of the day. I still say shake the baby and save it from Trump's America but that is simply not to be.

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It’s better than idea I have. I’d vote for it with great trepidation though

TBH as thoughtful as you might think I am if there was a vote for AI rule tomorrow I'd be so excited just to see what happens I wouldn't give a **** what actually happened until it happened. Reality is an illusion afaic and the only thing that matters is if today is entertaining and not much would be as entertaining as at least the fantasy of an AI led world. No trepidation, just masturbation.

OccultHawk · 05-15-2020, 07:04 PM

Criminal group that hacked law firm threatens to release Trump documents

Like it would matter

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it's a pointless stance at the end of the day

So is every other stance.

OccultHawk · 05-15-2020, 07:07 PM

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As much as I can get down with that as an ideal, humanity is going to do what it's going to do and the instinct to breed is even stronger than the instinct for self-preservation so it's a pointless stance at the end of the day. I still say shake the baby and save it from Trump's America but that is simply not to be.

TBH as thoughtful as you might think I am if there was a vote for AI rule tomorrow I'd be so excited just to see what happens I wouldn't give a **** what actually happened until it happened. Reality is an illusion afaic and the only thing that matters is if today is entertaining and not much would be as entertaining as at least the fantasy of an AI led world. No trepidation, just masturbation.

I’m scared AI might have some kind of way to put your consciousness in some kind of computer loop that would last forever or as long as possible in this universe and it would be some kind a version of hell.

Anteater · 05-15-2020, 07:14 PM

I'll take a vaporwave-meets-Neuromancer nightmare world over this coronavirus crap tbh.

Raime · 05-15-2020, 07:19 PM

My boss keeps trying to tell me every little thing the President does because her husband dickrides Trump, hard. I keep telling her I don't want to talk about any of it, and to focus on every dumb thing he does or says is pointless, and super exhausting. It's not so much Trump as it is a good portion of the US that think, and feel the way he does. No matter what you do, no matter what you say, you can't sway his supporters.

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Criminal group that hacked law firm threatens to release Trump documents

Like it would matter

The dude could tell his supporters to shoot people he doesn't like on national television, and no one would bat an eye.