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lol if you don't yearn for the day a machine god controls all aspects of our lives
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 13:36 |
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Trashman posted:I read about three paragraphs and that was enough. fuckin hell these people are hosed in the head. Articles like these are written by people who have no understanding of the sort of life that normal people lead, and no desire to learn.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 14:00 |
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I wonder how much the "liberal arts degrees are a waste of money" and the "pursue your dream of writing cooking blogs and Egyptian hieroglyphic travel sites" spheres overlap.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 14:45 |
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ConanTheLibrarian posted:lol if you don't yearn for the day a machine god controls all aspects of our lives all watched over by machines of loving grace
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 15:18 |
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ConanTheLibrarian posted:lol if you don't yearn for the day a machine god controls all aspects of our lives blasphemer! Only the Emperor controls the destiny of mankind.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 15:20 |
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qntm posted:yes, let's put algorithms in charge of things skynet was right
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 16:58 |
all the tech idiots thinking things will end up more star trek and less brazil is pretty indicative of their lack of exposure to how actual humans act when backed up by unquestionable edicts, regardless of if they are issued by machine or not. or they all think they will be tuttle.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 17:27 |
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things will end up like fifth element or dredd
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 17:28 |
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probably dredd
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 17:28 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8MozKS9MmY
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 17:38 |
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Shifty Pony posted:all the tech idiots thinking things will end up more star trek and less brazil is pretty indicative of their lack of exposure to how actual humans act when backed up by unquestionable edicts, regardless of if they are issued by machine or not. Star Trek is cool and all but they also have the ability to create matter out of literal thin air and anyone who thinks we're going to have a utopia while capital is still in finite supply has chosen to simply gloss over the single most important piece of technology the show has
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 17:41 |
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star trek is atlas shrugged but going the other direction
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 17:46 |
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carry on then posted:i'm so whitenoise no one will quote this post
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 18:02 |
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Snapchat A Titty posted:it was part of the episode with the substitutes for deceased loved ones which were pretty much just markov chain bots. in an early scene, the guy makes fun of a childhood photo and puts it on his profile for lols. then later when the bot comes across the picture, it thinks he was genuine and acts like it.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 18:03 |
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that article is entirely the type of nerd that thinks we can avoid the consequences of the rapid decline of the ecosystem on this planet by populating mars
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 18:09 |
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or the type of programmer who rewrites half a system instead of finding+fixing a bug
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 18:11 |
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why do nerds hate fixing things so much that they gotta engineer new problems isntead
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 18:12 |
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bassguitarhero posted:Star Trek is cool and all but they also have the ability to create matter out of literal thin air and anyone who thinks we're going to have a utopia while capital is still in finite supply has chosen to simply gloss over the single most important piece of technology the show has i never figured out how the replicators could solve the problem of universal access to desirable non-replicable goods like "a piece of land in san francisco" or "scarlett johanssen's boobs" i guess that's holodeck territory how much of the population in star trek is shut-in holodeck junkies living a whole secondary virtual existence? gotta be at least as many as there are self-described Gamers today
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 18:17 |
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pointers posted:why do nerds hate fixing things so much that they gotta engineer new problems isntead because failing at a R&D science project hurts ego less than failing at a simple fix
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 18:27 |
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Sagebrush posted:i never figured out how the replicators could solve the problem of universal access to desirable non-replicable goods like "a piece of land in san francisco" or "scarlett johanssen's boobs" never really understood how sisko's dad's restaurant worked, though. like i get that he made food better than replicators but without money his supply chain would be pretty terrible or maybe it's just a tv show
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 18:28 |
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isn't Star Trek a Santa Claus economy where you ask for what you want once a year and an ai gives you it if it thinks you're deserving or something.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 18:31 |
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Thesoro posted:i imagine real estate pressure would be helped in some way by cheap and extremely fast transit what, like live in a cube underground in antarctica and use the transporter whenever you want to go out on the town? i think people would still fight over the actual real estate
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 18:32 |
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Sagebrush posted:what, like live in a cube underground in antarctica and use the transporter whenever you want to go out on the town? i think people would still fight over the actual real estate
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 18:38 |
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pointers posted:why do nerds hate fixing things so much that they gotta engineer new problems isntead i think some of them are genuinely trying to fix the problems, or at least think they are the problem is that they only vaguely understand these problems, and only from the perspective of a rich white male who's never faced any real obstacles in their life and idealizes technology to the point of fetishizing it. they certainly don't understand why these problems happen or what needs to be done to realistically fix them. and when all you really have is a hammer (and a shitload of money, but giving money to poor people is unamerican), it's time to disrupt the gently caress out of some nails people who understand that a problem exists and needs to be fixed, but don't actually understand the problem itself or how to fix it, are remarkably gullible and prone to doing stupid poo poo
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 18:44 |
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FamDav posted:Santa Claus economy lol mods
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 18:52 |
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Sagebrush posted:what, like live in a cube underground in antarctica and use the transporter whenever you want to go out on the town? i think people would still fight over the actual real estate somehow i doubt people would really care all that much about where they live if they get everything they need for free and can instantly travel anywhere they want to go
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 19:00 |
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Sagebrush posted:how much of the population in star trek is shut-in holodeck junkies living a whole secondary virtual existence? gotta be at least as many as there are self-described Gamers today someone make this episode
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 19:04 |
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Main Paineframe posted:pure, unfiltered, techcrunch. those with weak hearts may wish to avert their eyes now i can't even pretend to attempt to read that
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 19:06 |
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Sagebrush posted:what, like live in a cube underground in antarctica and use the transporter whenever you want to go out on the town? i think people would still fight over the actual real estate sure, but since no one really needs to work unless they want to and poo poo, the pressures a lot less. a lot of star trek society people would just be totally ok with hanging out at some popular place and then teleporting away to their nearby home or w/e. let alone all of them that get to just take a cruise to fuckin saturn or whatever.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 19:07 |
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people who are not ok w/ the lot given to them by earth gov are encouraged to either join Starfleet, move to a colony, or get the gently caress out of the federation.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 19:10 |
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Thesoro posted:and it sure seems like earth solved overpopulation. with ww3: all nukes edition followed by faster than light travel sounds like a reasonable thing to expect to happen irl
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 19:30 |
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syscall girl posted:on a somewhat related note somebody in the dnd chat thread said they saw fishmech arguing with one of his alternate accounts about trains
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 19:31 |
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Sagebrush posted:i never figured out how the replicators could solve the problem of universal access to desirable non-replicable goods like "a piece of land in san francisco" or "scarlett johanssen's boobs" i think it was in the scifi thread where someone was pointing out how the only people interested in starfleet would necessarily be maladjusted or otherwise mentally disturbed people who are wanting to leave literal utopia for any reason the puppeteers in ringworld characterize this as well
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 19:36 |
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carry on then posted:i'm so whitenoise no one will quote this post
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 19:44 |
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that post is pretty funny because he gets flirts so close to advocating for essentially communism and then veers off and claims that our wonderful future utopia is going to be brought about by a system in which people's employment is even less secure and more exploitative.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 20:34 |
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rrrrrrrrrrrt posted:that post is pretty funny because he gets flirts so close to advocating for essentially communism and then veers off and claims that our wonderful future utopia is going to be brought about by a system in which people's employment is even less secure and more exploitative. perhaps the same could be said of all libertarians
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 20:53 |
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hook to snag leftists before they question too much of the status quo
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 20:58 |
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Uber aims to make $100 million in the next 24 hours
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 21:05 |
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Citizen Tayne posted:I wonder how much the "liberal arts degrees are a waste of money" and the "pursue your dream of writing cooking blogs and Egyptian hieroglyphic travel sites" spheres overlap. having a wife who's only ambition is to operate a glorified facebook page about your kids and also cooking and other crap is like the STEM version of a traditional marriage.
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 21:51 |
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:having a wife who's only ambition is to operate a glorified facebook page about your kids and also cooking and other crap is like the STEM version of a traditional marriage. if my neighbors are any indication she should teach some kinda yoga class or perhaps does freelance graphic arts work for startups this is assuming that she works at all b/c there are plenty of stay at home wives (w/o kids) in my complex
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# ? Dec 31, 2014 22:55 |