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Moby Dick – Big Read

– :Tee noch !; –:äh=wären da enragierte TeeTrinker ubw=urophil ? Im Gegensatz zu Kackau ?



Weiß’chnich. Aber aus diesm POculum wird’s trefflich schmäckn.

Happy Friday 13th, everyone. Hope you're not suffering from friggatriskaidekaphobia (or even hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia).

Where are you guys from? Norway, sagte ich und sah deine Mutter neben mir an. Sweden, sagte sie. We live in Sweden. In Sweden?, sagte er. There are riots in Sweden now. Really?, sagte ich. Riots in Sweden? Yes, as we are talking. It’s in the news.

»Kann das wirklich stimmen?«, sagte ich und sah sie an.

»Keine Ahnung«, antwortete sie. »Klingt seltsam.«

[…] Romane werden geschrieben, damit etwas im menschlichen Leben deutlich hervortritt, damit etwas, das existiert, aber vielleicht keine Form hat, eine Form erhält und sichtbar wird.
Das Leben hat keine solche Form.

Happy π day everyone!

Watch this video (which has books in it!) and find out why we don’t celebrate the Kreiszahl on June 28:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcPTi...

Project Gutenberg ist aus Deutschland nicht mehr erreichbar.

https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index....

Ich werde in Zukunft keine Bücher mehr beim S. Fischer Verlag kaufen.

The concern is that we may specify an epistemology[…]which has some flaw that leads the AI astray on some matter of crucial importance.Such an AI might be akin to a quick-witted person whose worldview is predicated on a false dogma,held to with absolute conviction,who consequently “tilts at windmills” and gives his all in pursuit of fantastical or harmful objectives.

Nothing a Sancho-Pansa-damper can’t fix.

[…] spawning a new copy of a digital worker is as easy as loading a new program into working memory. Life thus becomes cheap. A business could continuously adapt its workforce to fit demands by spawning new copies— and terminating copies that are no longer needed, to free up computer resources. This could lead to an extremely high death rate among digital workers.


Remember this next time you hit Alt+F4!

Human beings are not secure systems, especially not when pitched against a superintelligent schemer and persuader.


Right. So your task is simple: Under no circumstances click the following link! CLICK HERE (Don’t worry, you can actually click it – it’s mostly harmless)

Denial makes no sense and I left that stage fairly soon and entered the Anger stage where I still am right now. Bargaining is out of the question so I have to prepare myself for Depression.

With stem cell-derived gametes, a few donated cells might be turned into a virtually unlimited number of gametes that could be combined to produce embryos, which could then be genotyped or sequenced, and the most promising one chosen for implantation.

I had flashback. For a second I thought I was reading THE IRON DREAM again.

From the foreword:

This has not been an easy book to write: I have tried to make it an easy book to read, but I don’t think I have quite succeeded.

Bostrom should not work as a motivational coach.

‘You stand there from on high, whining about “norms” and “ethics” and “standards” and you might as well be talking about sundials and carrier pigeons. The world has moved on, my friends.[…]
You still think it’s all about rules and facts and data and reason and science and all those things you built your lives and your careers on. But none of that matters any more. That world is gone.’

[...]the graphic and brutal account of sexual assault at the hands of the President would,on its own,have been enough to shake her. But the appalling truth was that these days it no longer registered as a surprise. Given everything that had come out about this man, such revelations had lost their sting. Maggie feared that what was happening to her was happening to the American public. They were becoming inured to it.

Involuntarily, Maggie closed her eyes. So much pain in the world. It seemed to be brimming over. As if the world had more sorrow than it could contain. And, there was no denying it, the man she worked for, the man she served, was adding to it. Each day, with his laws, his deportation squads, his insults, his bile and venom, he was adding to this overflowing volume of anguish.

Today, to the day, the Berlin Wall has disappeared for as long as it stood: 28 years, 2 months and 26 days

1961


1989

For Hitler, the downfall of the Roman Empire was brought about by ancient Christianity, which he described as a "pre-Bolshevism" created by Jews for the purpose of exterminating the state.

Oh, and he calls for a radical change in history lessons in German schools.

Scherze, die er oft bis zur Ausgelassenheit über einen und denselben Gegenstand »zusammenjeanpaulisiren« konnte, flossen nicht mehr von seinen zuweilen krampfhaft zuckenden Lippen.


Das Verb sollte man sich merken!

Erbtugend, sagte Klingsohr in einem ihm beim Aussprechen von Gedanken und Versen eigenen singenden Tone, Erbtugend! Die ist der ewige Rückschlag des Geistes gegen die Natur! Die ist die Flut, wenn die Sünde die Ebbe! Die ist vielleicht auch nur das ewige Philisterium, an dem selbst die Titanen litten, wenn sie zu viel Kaukasuswein getrunken hatten!

Ihm mußte man nur dienen,nur gehorchen;Weisungen von andern anzunehmen war seine Sache nicht.Von jeher hatte er auch deshalb Frauen lieber um sich leiden mögen als Männer.Gleiches,Ebenbürtiges,Höheres,zu dem er aufblicken mußte,duldete seine hohe Meinung von sich selbst nicht.Seine tyrannische Art schlug mit einer Handbewegung um sich und scherzte mit der andern.

Nein, ich lese nicht Fire and Fury

Die bürgerliche Welt ist marxistisch, glaubt aber an die Möglichkeit der Herrschaft bestimmter Menschengruppen (Bürgertum), während der Marxismus selbst die Welt planmäßig in die Hand des Judentums überzuführen trachtet.


Schön, dass wir das mal genau erklärt bekommen.

Build a sentence containing the words Fire, Blaze, Sword, Siegfried, Freedom, Nation, and Life.
I bet you cannot make it sound more pathetic and with less sense than Hitler’s last sentence of Mein Kampf's first volume.


=== END OF VOLUME I ===

To Hitler any paper writing something ciritcal (even the most conservative ones) is a “Jewish” paper, and of course it’s all lies what they tell.
In terms of content, I see little difference to Trump's fake-news rantings at this point. The form of Trump’s rants, however, is far inferior to the one of the “Führer”. Well, he’s still got three years left to improve.

‘Is this some man thing where women aren’t actually allowed to handle power tools because it dispels the masculine mystique?’

‘Look, it’s all we have left. Women are everywhere doing everything better than we can. For God’s sake, leave us our power tools.’


Uh oh. A funny exchange in this book – usually a bad sign for the characters.

If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the Unites States. He’s the one that has to get people together.
— Donald Trump, 4/7/2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_wAJ...

‘We’re a small, very discreet private hospital with a high-security clearance. We take in people who, for the good of the country, daren’t let it be known they’re a little …’ he paused.
‘Unstable?’ I suggested.
‘Well, madder than a fish, actually,’ he said. ‘We glue them back together and send them out to rule the world again.’


Well, I know of some world leader who’s in need of being glued together.

[…] die Triebkraft zu den gewaltigsten Umwälzungen auf dieser Erde lag zu allen Zeiten weniger in einer die Masse beseelenden wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis als in einem sie beherrschenden Fanatismus und einer sie manchmal vorwärtsjagenden Hysterie.

Da hat Hitler womöglich sogar recht. Leider!