Internet articles
https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/06/the-catastrophe-of-birth.html[š”] Continue reading
Why do we want to create an ASI
Perhaps, at least in part, the quest to create an artificial consciousness is part of a longing that comes from the human unconscious. We long for entering into communion with other minds different from our own. We do not want to suffer alone in a high degree of knowledge and for this we are willing to create an artificial consciousness. The same impulse may serve as the basis for those who seek to find other intelligent consciousnesses in the stars, through the discovery of intelligent alien life.
Fernando Olszewski, https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/01/the-mistake-of-rokos-basilisk.html[š”]
And what do those philosophers who oppose our resenting life propose? The forging of new myths such as the Ć¼bermensch or the deification of human history. However, changing gods wonāt make a difference, just as returning to medieval or ancient times wonāt make a difference. Eventually, these new myths will die, too, because some of us are intelligent enough to see through them. Read the full page
https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/09/excess-lucidity.html[š”] Continue reading
Existential Comics #501[š”] Continue reading
Aella on fetishes and the myth of trauma
My guess is also that fetishes are less malleable and controllable than most people seem to assume they are. Read the full page
The Origin of the Intrinsic Human Ridiculousness ā Astutillo Smeriglia
In coma ĆØ meglio[š”], re-posted in 2022 under my suggestion Continue reading
Why āWe Are the Fleshā has a deeper twist ending than āThe Sixth Senseā
filmcolossus.com, review by Jordan C. Johnson Continue reading
Of course everyone knows, on an intellectual level, that they wonāt live forever. But that doesnāt mean that they really acknowledge it. Read the full page
The first time I watched Buffalo ā66 ā Matteo Gagliardi
https://www.vice.com/it/article/znj883/buffalo-66-vincent-gallo[š”] Continue reading
The Gift of Life ā Astutillo Smeriglia
https://incomaemeglio.blogspot.com/2013/09/il-dono-della-vita.html[š”] Continue reading
Suffering is not just an intellectual game
https://reducing-suffering.org/the-horror-of-suffering/#Suffering_is_not_just_an_intellectual_game[š”] Continue reading
Why is there something rather than nothing?
https://skepticalinquirer.org[š”] Continue reading
Gavazzeni: āMusic worsens the manā
Alberto Sinigaglia (āttLā, La Stampa, insert) Continue reading
There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such a state is not tolerable to most people. Why else would someone succumb to the attractions of romantic love more than once? Didnāt they learn their lesson the first time or the tenth time or the twentieth time? And itās the same old lesson: everything in this life ā I repeat, everything ā is more trouble than itās worth. And simply being alive is the basic trouble. This is something that is more recognized in Eastern societies than in the West. Thereās a minor tradition in Greek philosophy that instructs us to seek a state of equanimity rather than one of ecstasy, but it never really caught on for obvious reasons. Buddhism advises its practitioners not to seek highs or lows but to follow a middle path to personal salvation from the painful cravings of the average sensual life, which is why it was pretty much reviled by the masses and mutated into forms more suited to human drives and desires. It seems evident that very few people can simply sit still. Children spin in circles until they collapse with dizziness.
Thomas Ligotti ā āFantastic Metropolisā interview
Umberto Galimberti ā The success of philosophy
But for those who, adapted to the world, and with a moderate self-awareness still do not find a meaning of their existence, and therefore come into contact not with this or that pain, but with the essence of pain, for those there is no remedy in the pharmacy and perhaps not even in psychotherapy. Read the full page
Athletes
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But itās better for us not to know the kinds of sacrifices the professional-grade athlete has made to get so very good at one particular thingā¦ the actual facts of the sacrifices repel us when we see them: basketball geniuses who cannot read, sprinters who dope themselves, defensive tackles who shoot up with bovine hormones until they collapse or explode. We prefer not to consider closely the shockingly vapid and primitive comments uttered by athletes in postcontest interviews or to consider what impoverishments in oneās mental life would allow people actually to think the way great athletes seem to think. Note the way āup close and personalā profiles of professional athletes strain so hard to find evidence of a rounded human lifeāoutside interests and activities, values beyond the sport. We ignore whatās obvious, that most of this straining is farce. Itās farce because the realities of top-level athletics today require an early and total commitment to one area of excellence. An ascetic focus. A subsumption of almost all other features of human life to one chosen talent and pursuit. A consent to live in a world that, like a childās world, is very smallā¦ [Tennis player] Joyce is, in other words, a complete man, though in a grotesquely limited wayā¦ Already, for Joyce, at twenty-two, itās too late for anything else; heās invested too much, is in too deep. I think heās both lucky and unlucky. He will say he is happy and mean it. Wish him well.
David Foster Wallace, āThe String Theoryā (July 1996, Esquire)