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Kirk Johnson
May 25, 2014

by Ralp

Harime Nui posted:

What did you say before you edited coward

I added the :) smiley so it reads as passive-aggressive.

Not gonna lie.

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Police Automaton
Mar 17, 2009
"You are standing in a thread. Someone has made an insightful post."
LOOK AT insightful post
"It's a pretty good post."
HATE post
"I don't understand"
SHIT ON post
"You shit on the post. Why."
and they wonder how radical muslims manage to recruit westerners

Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax
Where micro-aggressions are swept away, to be replaced by a new flowering of micro-transactions

Box of Trial
Sep 4, 2003

TONKA HYAH

Maoist Pussy posted:

In the glorious an-cap singularity, gender will be irrelevant and not funny

you can say whatever you want, and i can call you an unfunny shithead in response and also because it's god's honest truth :patriot:

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009
You know, we could avoid discussions like this if goons didn't post bigoted things. Just throwin' that out there.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

Harime Nui
Apr 15, 2008

The New Insincerity
I just want to pants everyone who has ever unironically used the phrase "technological singularity" and laugh at them is that so wrong

Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax
I'm going to start brainstorming a Justine Tunney smilie. I feel like a silly visual reference for "pyschotic nerd techno-fascism" will be useful in the dark days ahead.

Harime Nui
Apr 15, 2008

The New Insincerity
In the glorious google future my computerized nanny will replicate a steampunk costume for me every morning and sound an airhorn every time one of the proles plays their goddamn tom tom jungle music in public

Vulich the Subtle
Nov 25, 2012

Paul is unimpressed by the glories of the Host.

Harime Nui posted:

In the glorious google future my computerized nanny will replicate a steampunk costume for me every morning and sound an airhorn every time one of the proles plays their goddamn tom tom jungle music in public

Harime Nui
Apr 15, 2008

The New Insincerity
2025: the first Strong A.G.I is activated at a secret google lab off the coast of China. Put to its very first question, the God of the New Age answers "anything but rap or country, please."

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Maoist Pussy posted:

I'm going to start brainstorming a Justine Tunney smilie. I feel like a silly visual reference for "pyschotic nerd techno-fascism" will be useful in the dark days ahead.

I too think that would be useful. A good starting place might be her weird-rear end animated self-caricature.

Box of Trial
Sep 4, 2003

TONKA HYAH

Harime Nui posted:

In the glorious google future my computerized nanny will replicate a steampunk costume for me every morning and sound an airhorn every time one of the proles plays their goddamn tom tom jungle music in public

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Harime Nui posted:

In the glorious google future my computerized nanny will replicate a steampunk costume for me every morning and sound an airhorn every time one of the proles plays their goddamn tom tom jungle music in public

EXTREME INSERTION
Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien
Shut up before I shove you all into lockers assembly line style

EXTREME INSERTION
Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien
Everything he said about leftists is true. I also share his pessimism about the future of industrial society. Things don't look very good for humanity. One thing people should remember, is that Ted Kaczynski used to be one of the greatest math geniuses in the country. I get the impression that—like The Master from Doctor Who—he stared into what we call “The Technological Singularity” and literally went insane.
But I'm much more pragmatic and stoic than him. We might be careening towards the end of humanity. Maybe we would have been better off, had agriculture never been invented, and we remained proud warriors scavenging through the wilderness. But I have no intention of joining a primitivist cause that deludes itself into thinking it's possible to reverse our current trajectory. I ain't trying to blow up dams and go to prison for no reason. I'd much rather Ride the Tiger and enjoy the show.

EXTREME INSERTION
Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien
Uhh death to trains reddit fredora I'm gay

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Apr 8, 2012

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Maoist Pussy posted:

I'm going to start brainstorming a Justine Tunney smilie. I feel like a silly visual reference for "pyschotic nerd techno-fascism" will be useful in the dark days ahead.

hitler wearing google glass please

Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax
Is this person on Adderall? A lot of over-achiever type kids are on Adderall, and Adderall can make you want to write like you are on the screenplay to Apocalypse Now.

EXTREME INSERTION
Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien

Bitter Mushroom posted:

hitler wearing google glass please

Hitler as a woman wearing google glass

Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax

Bitter Mushroom posted:

hitler wearing google glass please

Its just going to be Justine twitter logo with a Hitler stache lazily drawn on, sorry.

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Maoist Pussy posted:

Is this person on Adderall? A lot of over-achiever type kids are on Adderall, and Adderall can make you want to write like you are on the screenplay to Apocalypse Now.

John Milius, who wrote that screenplay (and "Red Dawn") is the inspiration for Walter in "The Big Lebowski.":eng101:

Also I'm on Adderall, but it just makes me claw off my own face from time to time.

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

EXTREME INSERTION posted:

Everything he said about leftists is true. I also share his pessimism about the future of industrial society. Things don't look very good for humanity. One thing people should remember, is that Ted Kaczynski used to be one of the greatest math geniuses in the country. I get the impression that—like The Master from Doctor Who—he stared into what we call “The Technological Singularity” and literally went insane.
But I'm much more pragmatic and stoic than him. We might be careening towards the end of humanity. Maybe we would have been better off, had agriculture never been invented, and we remained proud warriors scavenging through the wilderness. But I have no intention of joining a primitivist cause that deludes itself into thinking it's possible to reverse our current trajectory. I ain't trying to blow up dams and go to prison for no reason. I'd much rather Ride the Tiger and enjoy the show.

Can you imagine Justine trying to chase a mammoth with a spear?

fuck the ROW
Aug 29, 2008

by zen death robot
Think of the tragedy of a human race unable to call somebody a fag online.. its hosed up and dark as hell

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
remember radium's rant about queers and progressives? I wanna see him and JT hook up

Box of Trial
Sep 4, 2003

TONKA HYAH
kill jesus again imo

Harime Nui
Apr 15, 2008

The New Insincerity
I would have probably died due to my flat feet and femoral hernia how about you guys

Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax

Majorian posted:

Can you imagine Justine trying to chase a mammoth with a spear?

Noble savages knew their gender roles. Justine would have been a basket pattern library version control agent.

ditty bout my clitty
May 28, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Majorian posted:

You know, we could avoid discussions like this if goons didn't post bigoted things. Just throwin' that out there.

We could also avoid it by making social justice warrioring a bannable offense like it should be.

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

Harime Nui posted:

I would have probably died due to my flat feet and femoral hernia how about you guys

I would survive because I totally lift bro.

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
"occasionally prose promulgating esoteric political persuasions" i like this this person knows about that special brand of consonance called alliteration

i am lolling in my heart right now (out loud can be spiritual) about a racialist transgender technocrat the future is such an awesome place what with all the kooky new permutations of hatred and shiteating

Maoist Pussy
Feb 12, 2014

by Lowtax

Maoist Pussy posted:

Noble savages knew their gender roles. Justine would have been a basket pattern library version control agent.

Oh wait, nm, he would have been crushed by a mastodon lol

Box of Trial
Sep 4, 2003

TONKA HYAH

Maoist Pussy posted:

Noble savages knew their gender roles. Justine would have been a basket pattern library version control agent.

Justine would say she led the hunt but really she just blew the horn to let the camp know they didn't achieve anything

FreudianSlippers
Apr 12, 2010

Shooting and Fucking
are the same thing!

Primitivism is fascism for New Age hippies except even more moronic.

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
not really seeing any distinction between kaczynski's ideas about leftists and those of gbs

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug
I'm here to detumblrify the forums and chew gum and wouldn't you know it I still have like a ton of gum

Effectronica
May 31, 2011
Fallen Rib
here's me tongue-in-cheek advocating the destruction of my employer! ha ha!

and let me make a clever allusion to this sci-fi teevee show! gently caress yes!

EXTREME INSERTION
Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien
Did you read to the end? I said the singularity could create a pantheistic “one” where the whole of being and existence is so tightly interconnected that the differences between individual beings asymptotically approaches irrelevance. So honestly, I would say we're in agreement for the most part.
I sometimes like to fantasise about what this would look like. Imagine if the singularity creates giant two-dimensional CPUs that have bewildering computational capacity. Imagine if it wants MOAR POWER so it repurposes all the atoms on earth into a giant two-dimensional CPU of perfect computing material, which transhumanists call computronium.
But then singularity want even moar. So it starts expanding into the solar system, turning the moon and planets into computronium. It continues to expand outward into the cosmos, engulfing stars, drinking nebulas, and colonizing the entire galaxy. All in its unquenchable thirst for performing even greater computations.
But now we have a big problem: the speed of light is slow! I can't play Counter Strike with nerds in India because it takes light one hundred and twenty bloody milliseconds to travel there and back in fibre, and three hundred in practice. Universe—why do you disappoint me so!
I imagine the superintelligence will feel a similar level of frustration. Computers need *locality* in order to perform computations quickly. So it'll start dragging all the computronium in the galaxy, closer and closer together. Eventually it might collapse all the matter in the galaxy into a supermassive piece of computronium the size of a marble with physical locality so extreme that it's measured in planck units. I'm no physicist, but based on what I've heard from them, this is technically possible if you consider that the universe emerged from a tiny point.
Then our happy little galaxy could start playing Marble Madness, positioning itself in geostationary orbit with the black hole at the center of our galaxy. It'll wait for Andromeda to show up, and then eat that too, because it wants moar. And just keep spinning and computing.
But if I remember correctly, orbits decay over time. So it'd probably get to have its number crunching fun for a good solid millions of years, before it gets sucked into the black hole. Then who knows what happens? Perhaps its information will spew out on the other side and give birth to a new universe. Our great heavenly father becomes a mother.
Wow! I guess God is trans. about 4 hours ago

Harime Nui
Apr 15, 2008

The New Insincerity
If you think about it groves of one type of fruit or nut producing tree are a weird freakish alteration of nature, now imagine being a peasant from a village that exists just to tend and harvest that grove, and it's like you're strapped in on an unstoppable rocket to the weird farmpunk future

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Harime Nui
Apr 15, 2008

The New Insincerity
When I think about how our modern ideas of time developed around the needs and basis of agricultural production I realize it is too late, my mind has been immutably altered by the relentless assault of the cornocracy, and I grip my scythe and weep

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