Tag: science
Pantheon (2022) – On the uploading process
Discussing the uploading process as portrayed in the anime. Read the full page
Jetta – An autistic kid talks about the universe and the end of time
Chris: If you could share one message with the whole entire world, what would you say?
Jetta: The universe is about the end.
Chris: Why do you want people to know that?
Jetta: Because someday it will end in our face. Read the full page
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[🡕]
And what do those philosophers who oppose our resenting life propose? The forging of new myths such as the übermensch or the deification of human history. However, changing gods won’t make a difference, just as returning to medieval or ancient times won’t 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
Is it actually possible to assert anything?
Is it actually possible to assert anything with 100% certainty? Read the full page
If one thinks about the (obviously made up) religious scenarios, or any other kind of hellish stories invented by humans, it’s obvious that most real lives don’t even come close to that. Continue reading
Andrew McIntosh – On the Drive Towards Death and the Drive Away From Death (Ineffectual Whinging)
Just throwing a hodge podge of ideas I’ve read about and find interesting together in the hopes of coming up with a synthesis that doesn’t mean much in the end anyway. It’s not like I believe there are such things as “Death Drives” and “the Will” and all that, they’re more metaphorical for what is probably more mundane, neurobiological stuff going on in our stupid brains. Read the full page
Allowing two objects (or persons) to have a different arrow of time and to cohexist in the same consistent timeline is impossible even just theoretically. It’s not sci-fi and not even magic, it’s simply something that doesn’t work. Continue reading
Andrew McIntosh – The Point of Pointlessness (Ineffectual Whinging)
[…] that whole insane “get up and go” mentality, starting with the obscenity of the work ethic, squirming as it did like soft stool out of the arsehole of Christianity, condemning us to mindless labour and activity simply for its own sake. Work for its own sake – what kind of fucking numpty thought that was a good idea? Read the full page
When you’re suffering, that’s when you’re most real. Read the full page
When I said to him: “Professor Morgenbesser, why is there something rather than nothing?”
And he said, “Oh, even if there was nothing, you still wouldn’t be satisfied.”
TED – Why does the universe exist? – Jim Holt
Why is there something rather than nothing?
https://skepticalinquirer.org[🡕] Continue reading
Waking Life – Richard Linklater
A thousand years is but an instant. Read the full page
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
The sinking of the Titanic represented the end of an era, the broken dream of the belle Ă©poque. As with the fall of the Babylonian empire, the sinking of the Titanic represented the symbol of the crumbling of proud empires, with a similar mix of rich, bourgeois and poor all destined together for the abyss. It was the end of a legend that married technology to wealth, materialism to romance, illusion to fantasy.
Massimo Polidoro, The Curse of Titanic
[…] human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.
Tom Robbins – Another Roadside Attraction
Man was invented by water to carry itself uphill.
Simplified version circulated across the Internet
It’s not important “how true” this is or isn’t: it should be taken as a thought that attempts to summarize a wide range of theories, from the black smokers as the origin of life, to possible connections between quantum mechanics and consciousness.
That Day on the Moon – Oriana Fallaci
[”…] And on their return, rest assured, they won’t be writing poetry. If they were capable of it, after all, they wouldn’t be going to the Moon. And, most importantly, they wouldn’t be coming back.” Continue reading
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
The old norms having collapsed, and the new ones not yet arisen or firmly established, it is natural that the concept of the relativity of everything has expanded in us to such a degree as to almost entirely make us lose our sense of evaluation. No one is any longer able to fix for themselves a firm and unshakable point of view.
Luigi Pirandello – Arte e scienza (“Art and Science”)
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.[🡕]
Friedrich Nietzsche – The Joyous Science