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January 4 - January 4, 2022
This was the physics of people. The multiplication of emotional and patriotic energy produced psychological momentum.
Imagine if humanity was just scaffolding for the creation and ensoulment of machines.”
a geneticist who can commit evolution before our eyes.
“Some things do exist whether you believe them or not,” Saint Matthew said, “including meaning.”
“I’ve found out how to move past my instincts, as all rational beings must.”
“A species of people without a safe-word,” William said, disgusted. “A safe-word can only exist in a framework of consent,” Gates-15 said.
The mental power and the deep insight thrilled him. Yet the tremendous loneliness and utter isolation, even from himself, repelled him. He was moth to candle. They all were.
Evolution created a set of algorithms that, interacting together, created consciousness in humans. And yet those algorithms still link food and pleasure, hunger and pain. If you were creating a wholly synthetic being, and you programmed them to be happy when they’re fed, how is that different? The concept of programming is meaningless. Does it matter who made me love to look at the stars from within the fugue? All that matters is that I do.”
“The Homo quantus look at the cosmos, in its immensity and its interacting detail,” he said. “We look at the history of the universe, and we peer into the future, but what have we done with our insight? We’ve turned observation and theorizing into a license for inaction and hiding from the world. We’ve stopped moving.”
What separated intelligence from information was assessment. Information had to be interrogated for source, currency, reliability, and the possibility that it was in fact, counter-intelligence. If information survived the interrogation, it could then be situated in the context of other intelligence and meaningful conclusions drawn.
Life is short and life isn’t fair. You’ve got to grab it and own it before it owns you. And I might as well kick somebody in the huevos if I have to, right?”
Unless you’re doing the fucking, you’re the one getting fucked.
