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The two ‘ethical’ questions of our 21st century:
1) how is it possible that people like good things for bad reasons?
2) why must we question our certainty in evil as much as we must question our certainty in good?
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The church never does anything but eat around a problem; the body you consume is not the problem but the solution. The problem is never addressed as such. Protestantism addressed it, then began hallucinating that the problem can speak back its own solution. The result: no church.
The Pope is wrong on all of these points except for a few, which are only temporarily true. The Church eats around the problem by denying it exists here.
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You “know” you’ll “anger some.” Is your “angering some” a function of “discussion”? Or something else?
You “know” it’s something else, since you act like words are just words. Now, words are just that; they won’t break your bones; but no human bone was ever broken without a word.
May 29
I know I’ll anger some followers with this, but I find this embarrassingly juvenile. Many of these claims are mere technical problems: embodiment, sensors, continual learning. The rest are just special pleading. These systems can already discuss love, friendship, responsibility etc more lucidly than most humans, so the claim must be some sort of totally unfalsifiable human chauvinism. There is no possible set of behaviors AIs could exhibit which would put a dent in his confidence in these assertions. An embodied AI (robot) could be raised (continually learning in context) among humans, exhibiting every conceivable sign of love, compassion, responsibility, and friendship, and the Pope would still say “doesn’t count because silicon instead of meat”.
It would be more respectable if he just said “I don’t care if they can exhibit these traits because humans are my tribe” but instead he makes a giant list of assertions that have either already been proven false, will be proven false soon, or are unfalsifiable.
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Baudrillard’s limit is just that his world is child’s play. “The Gulf War didn’t happen” is amateur hour. Try: strikes during ceasefire imposed by the attacker, announced as “no cause for concern” by his enemy, for no one named but that power that constricts itself as it wins.
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No such thing as using the app ‘well’. there is wanting to go through an erotic ordeal or not wanting to. Sex isnt evil, but neither is it beautiful (but learn from
Diotima that what is not beautiful is NOT therefore ugly). Sex is castration. Anxiety is desire. You already know.
Why? I'm tempted to agree but I'm trying to be humble and admit that I either just generally suck as a person or am too dumb to use the app well
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Perversion is a form of containment, but not of fear. fear itself can also be read as a containment for an unbound libidinal attachment. It makes no sense either way, besides simply identifying the need to ‘contain’ desire, which is not a need but an articulation of desire itself
Fetishes are just the eroticism of fears. By turning fears into something perversely pleasurable they are manageable. 0.01% of the pop *actually* engages in cuckoldry irl but for ~200 yrs it has occupied the Western mind
B/c cuckoldry is the eroticization of dispossession (1/2)
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Nominalist return in the form of the parallelism of Absolute Aura (‘intrinsic socially empowered’) and Ordained Aura (‘circumstantially socially empowered’)
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the most insane person you know is irrationally divinely favoured
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The Rameausnephewification of the ABG must be studied
May 18
It’s very funny ending up on the same side politically as very low-openness, rigid traditionalists. I became RW because of my 99th percentile high openness rebellious tendencies
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will take you far. but a question remains whether the self-theorizing experiment of thought automatically confesses its own valuative structure or is formed by reflection. And further: whether reflection is an endogenous dialectic of memory or an exogenous dialectic of program.
May 18
Hegel, Marx, Sartre, and Fanon each show that there is no “dialectical method.” Methods are themselves enveloped by a certain form of thinking. Immanent Critique is a method. Phenomenology is a method. Psychoanalysis is a method. Each of them expresses Dialectical Reason.
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The ontology of Nietzschean dialectic of performance is *sniff* precisely nothing else than the ontology of the first undergraduate year itself…
May 17
define ontological
define nietzschean
define dialectical
define performative
define every buzzword you learned in your first year of uni during your liberal arts degree that you never properly retained
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right for the wrong reason. “The point of crucifixion” is not for you to crucify yourself but for you to BE crucified. Why else would Peter Abelard make the distinction between ‘Origen’s sin’ of self-castration and castration by the world, which for him unleashed the Paraclete.
Apr 30
No Patrick, the point of the Crucifixion was not for you to crucify yourself also.
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Cringe is not embarrassment. It is the affective registration of nonrelation itself.
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“Economic rationality brutalizes via distributed self-scapegoating. I‘ll infinitely perform the truth that the world refuses to accept!” Yes, women can be abject heroes too; it looks uglier from the pov of a masculine abjection that seeks its advantage in everything destitute.
May 11
fwiw i am not a vegetarian, and I think this choice increases the odds that i would have been ok owning slaves if i were born into the right culture
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AFFECT is mood in its state of being begotten. The only affect that does not lie is anxiety because anxiety is the mood of the begetting of mood. Every other affect lies in that they all in their own way tempt the subject to reside within the mood as something unbegotten.
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Thought flattens but it is not itself flat. One gets the impression thought takes the quickest path only because thought concerns itself with making a path, which will always be the most minimum distance between two objects. But the making itself made be radically elliptical.
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The dream continues after waking
May 6
“he cries after sex” there is no “after” sex. it’s all sex, the before, the after, and especially the crying
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Lain is anti-Land. Land wants to bargain-with-and-outwit the demiurge (Eiri), in the style of Angloid daemonic platonism, to de-texturize what can with some banality be called psychic space.
Lain is hunting the demiurge & grasps that the cost is soul-death/paranatural doubling.
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Arianism says that the Son is God’s best and only imaginary friend. To *us*, he is not imaginary, since he is God’s imaginary friend, and also a God. But to God he cannot be a God—he is paradivine, a shadow. Here is the heretical beginning of Christian theology of the parasocial
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Adam was only tempted by one whom he could make complicit, was he not?
Women would sooner take you for a homosexual or a porn addict than concede that you might possess a soul, with blood in your heart.
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