/lit/ - Literature

>>17780312
Look out your window.

>>17734729

What translation should I read for the Upanishads? Please not Poo-in-the-loo bullshit, I'd prefer Western scholarship over Dravidian reinterpretation. Currently I'm looking at Olivelle.

I'm not asking how to form political beliefs, I'm asking how to write them down cogently. I have a decently well-thought out belief system that leans on itself but I have trouble writing it all out when I sit down at the computer. I could grab a beer and explain my beliefs to a friend for hours and have a good-natured back and forth or defend myself in an argument but when it comes to actually trying to pontificate them in, say, and article I have trouble writing more than just a paragraph or two. I don't know how to know what to talk about without someone else moving the topic along, I suppose.

>>14498864
>Now, as things equalize and the progression of technology grinds to a steady pace
L O L

Let's go based fastie frenz.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/slavoj-zizek-interview-trump-brexit-metoo-jordan-peterson-debate-a8866516.html

>Slavoj Zizek says ‘the dream of universal liberal democracy is over’

>slavo walks by a sewer drain while eating his hotdogs
>sees nick land dressed in clown costume in it
>"come outside slavjo"

4/

Is there else that we can do?

>>12157080
Fanged Noumena

>>12089450
>>12089455

ah, turns out I got a warning for 'post quality' for making the original thread; I appreciate the janny's dedication to blog posts.
let's see how this goes:
https://discord.gg/DDkujxr

>>11184991
>dive into the deepest recesses of the mind
wait, what kind of acc is this bro? l/acc? deff not u/acc or r/acc. some shitty c/acc or something?

>>11180082
If you really want to minimize suffering it's probably just easiest to do away with conscious being as a whole. We need to program robots with categorical imperatives a la Asimov's rules or utilitarian calculation will end us terminator style (not memeing)
Also how the fuck are you supposed to predict outcomes? I'm sure America though everyone would get rich going into Somalia; their utilitarian charts probably would have looked great.

>>11178707
Land is u/acc all the way.

>>11164008

start throwing fat people in front of trolleys and retweeting alt-right pepe memes

Get into the dark enlightenment /b/ro

this being

Fun philosophy but shouldn't be taken too seriously

How does Christianity confront Singularity and accelerationsim? What would it mean to be Christian in a world where humans are no longer the most intelligent thing on Earth?

>>10232687
I'm still formulating here, so I'll just regurgitate all of the threads I'm working with. It'll be a good writing exercise for me.
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Bataille argues that sacrifice exists to eliminate surpluses that would otherwise have catastrophic uses (total war, nuclear war, etc). Accelerationism posits that Capitalism is a positive feedback loop, in which all surplus becomes fuel accelerating civilization towards the singularity.

These narratives aren't completely contradictory, it just depends on your definition of singularity. The typical definition is singularity= AI or Techno-Utopia or something positive.

But another meaning of singularity is it's quantitative definition: oneness. Singularity is compression of space and time, to the point where are things are exchangable and identical and in which events happen so quickly there is no longer time to reason about them. Land illustrates this concept of singularity with his Accelerationist Trolley Problem. (Pic-related). In this sense, Singularity becomes the end of Ethics, as there is no longer time to measure the consequences of decisions.

There is also the notion of Positive Feedback loops. Typically, a positive feedback builds up noise until something in the circuit limits it, or until the circuit itself explodes (imagine speakers feedbacking until they burst). To me, this is the more logical Singularity and Transcendental end point of Capitalism, one massive explosion to end all explosions.

Symbolically, the question could be compared to rocketry: Is Capitalism a Space Shuttle or a Ballistic Missile. They're essentially the same technology, once ends in utopia and the other cataclysm.

>>9949649