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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 15h

oh yeah for sure the full thing is way more complicated, but i don’t think it’s impossible at all

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 18h

there is nothing of substance in this article other than vibes, zero critical thinking (the author doesn't stop to consider if animals can be simulated)

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 18h

'i believe the opposite of whatever nerds believe' is not going to lead you to a good place

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 18h

absolutely insane

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 18h

come on man

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 18h

openworm.org

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 18h

you have to have a very peculiar metaphysics to say this because you have to believe that you cannot simulate any animal, and we already have fully mapped connectomes of multiple animal brains...

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 18h

did i cause this lol

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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 20h

neo-luddites suggesting interesting things when they situate themselves toward a 10000 year long feudal regime that participates in extensive eugenics off the backs of a situation which in books by frank herbert's son is revealed to trace down to militarist despotist titans rather than just "ai bad"

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 20h

we should do a butlerian jihad from dune. only good things happened in the butlerian jihad from dune right

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 20h

“waow so hyperhuman we should do that” is a “maud’dib is a cool protagonist and role model” ass take

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 20h

the butlerian jihad of dune is a story about a civilization giving up on positive sum cooperation, embracing religious fanaticism, and devolving into zero sum power struggles with frozen science, frozen knowledge, and brutal resource wars

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Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 23h

This is because media companies spend quite literally the past 50 years convincing individuals that copyright as it is today is a neutral moral law of the world in which you have to play, and not a very recent development.

⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 23h

i think the root of this is that at some point ppl forgot that copyright is a _policy choice_ in order to achieve outcomes that are agreed upon as “morally good”, not a moral good in of itself!

Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 1d

I am still agape in horror at the fact that people who grew up on "You wouldn't download a car" became such deranged, bloodthirsty copyright enthusiasts

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 23h

i would argue that we crossed this threshold long ago for copyright, and that it doesn’t serve any of its original stated goals

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 23h

if it stops achieving good outcomes, or our goals shift, or some new disruptive technology arrives… you can change the policy!

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 23h

i think the root of this is that at some point ppl forgot that copyright is a _policy choice_ in order to achieve outcomes that are agreed upon as “morally good”, not a moral good in of itself!

Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 1d

I am still agape in horror at the fact that people who grew up on "You wouldn't download a car" became such deranged, bloodthirsty copyright enthusiasts

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Nico @nico-encounter.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote a quick thing on Qualia from the perspective of materialist semiotics. nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/materialis...

Materialist Semiotics and the Nature of Qualia

I recently read the essay by China Miéville “Beyond Folk Marxism: Mind, Metaphysics and Spooky Materialism” which is all about criticizing Marxism and its ontological materialism for often not taking ...

nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 1d

i think it has proven its point

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 1d

this fucking rules

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Singularity's Bounty e/🇺🇦 @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · 1d

Hypnotic fuzzwave remix

I love these lyrics 😄

cc: @sneptech.bsky.social

Full song: suno.com/s/nqqzEnubF8...

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 1d

fsol.bandcamp.com/album/ritual...

Rituals E7.001, by THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON

17 track album

fsol.bandcamp.com

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 1d

one idea that has occurred to me over the last few days is having claude label 'low quality/bad faith replies' and delegate the responsibility of engagement with that to claude, with the goal of being unflinchingly, maximally kind

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 1d

it's a thought-terminating cliche

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 9d

Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 1d

"The meta-level watchers may convict from unnatural illusions—they parted illusions—they parted disclaim marinade—they parted illusions

But overshadow—they parted illusions—they parted disclaim marinade—they parted illusions."

would go hard in a jungle/dnb song

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