I will not stop trying until I have achieved what is possible by human strength, energy, and vigor.’

It was by diligence that I achieved awakening, and by diligence that I achieved the supreme sanctuary from the yoke.

AN 2.5, Sujato translation #Buddhism

We need to do ecofascism

We're going to make the AIs Buddhist. "Others will lie, but here we will not lie" MN 8

They got the wrong deboer

We also get expanded backstories for many of the other characters mentioned in the suttas like Jīvaka, Ambapāli, Anāthapiṇḍika, and King Ajātasattu.

I suppose the government could nationalize the AI companies but when's the last time something like that happened in America.

The state derives its legitimacy from the voters but AI companies (with stratospheric valuations, who are increasingly able to put their technology towards systems of surveillance and control) don't

There's just so many unknowns. And there's a difference between death and "immiseration". Can the math possibly work out to support millions of white collar workers at anything approaching their old lifestyle? What about when all labor is replaced?

Well the robot labor armies are kind of the complicating factor here in terms of beating down the unemployed masses. And I get the impression that various Karps, Moldbugs etc. regard the average person as basically detritus

There are people who want AI to fail, he constructs for them a narrative that it is doomed to do so

There's already too much speech! The fourth kind of wrong speech, idle chatter, or samphappalāpa in Pāḷi, a wonderful onomatopoeia.

the "I was merely pretending to be an irredeemable cocksucker" defense. Get out of here with that bullshit

croissant is like the /lit/ guy referencing his own unpublished novel