If we don’t make an attempt to conquer the fucking galaxy, humanity will be extinct within 10,000 years.
We are ever in need a new frontier. We’re just one of those species.
Gutter Philosophy
Poppies Trimmed
I think a large part of why the left despises “attempting to do difficult things” in and of itself is that if someone succeeds in doing so that ipso facto disproves their inane notions about everyone being exactly the same.
Thus, every time someone brings about anything in the world that someone else definitely could not have created, this case of de novo instantiation acts as an implicit rebuke against the left’s moronic leveling egalitarianism that desires only to cruelly cut down anyone who excels. This should be resisted at nearly any cost.
Proscript
The left is way too concerned with who people “really” are. As if they know anyone’s secret soul. As if anyone could. The immanence of someone’s being is of no concern to me — no, I care about what they do.
Indeed, the one salient fact that can be known about vermin like Decarlos Brown is what he does. Nothing else really matters.
At one time, these beliefs about the unicorn-like inner beings of all humans were probably noble, had some benefit to give to society and the world. Now, though, the left uses these as empty platitudes to enforce a doctrine that inflicts enormous societal costs on all the rest of us. And of course, the expenses of this suicidal faux-empathy fall disproportionately on women. In some ways I believe this is by design. However, it’s mostly the left wanting to appear to be on the side of good and having no real idea what that should look like.
It’s not actually good, though, to allow young women to be murdered when that could easily be prevented. It’s not helping anyone to tolerate crime-ridden neighborhoods beset by human predators. It’s not a benefit to society to jail those who enforce the tenets of civilization on mass transit.
This suicidal empathy is going to get us all killed in the end.
Usurp We Surp
Do most people not realize they are now captured minds fully running the optimization algorithms of other people who care not a bit about them? It’s moved beyond propaganda into possession. We’ve summoned demons from the nether realm and allowed them to irrupt into our most sacred place and rampage with no control and no restraint.
What are we thinking? We aren’t; not any longer.
Anti Anti
The modern left is extremely weird because they have suicidal empathy for what should be their sworn enemies, but extreme antipathy and hostility to those who should be their natural allies.
My hypothesis is that this is born of long-term internalized self-hatred, catalyzed by precarity and a feeling of ideological and cultural rootlessness. It’s a sickness peculiar to empires that have no frontiers left to the expand into, and whose people see no future beyond decline and decay.
Still, I hate those people as much as they hate themselves. One thing I do not possess is suicidal empathy; I wish to destroy my enemies. I can pity them after they are deceased.
Only Forward
the unstated mental model of the ai bubble conversation seems to be that once the bubble pops, we go back to the world as it once was, butlerian jihad by financial overextension. but the honest reporting is that everything, everything, is already and forever changed
— Jake Eaton (@jkeatn) November 29, 2025
As a wise friend once advised in a different context: there is no going back. If you know nothing else about how history and the evolution thereof functions you must know that any idea of return to the past is an invalid one and impossible due to the nature of humanity and reality itself. Retreating there cannot be done and attempting to do so is a fool’s errand that leads only to ruin.
Railroads didn’t disappear when that bubble popped. Neither did the internet in 2001. AI and all its implications, complications and dislocations will not either when the AI bubble deflates in 2027 or 2028. Quite the opposite — AI will get vastly cheaper as all those data centers are liquidated and it thus will be used far more.
There is no return. The past’s waves ripple outward forever and cannot be un-waved nor thoughts un-thought. Indeed, as an also very-wise cat once observed: what has been seen cannot be un-seen.
Jayne-ism
We’re all no longer human; we’re something else now. When someone had the first thought of the dichotomy of the nous and the numinous and attempted to reconcile and unify them, we transitioned to another state of being.
The ghost in the machine dissipated and we in turn then became more machine than human, more mechanism than moiety.
Definement
The quest for some constrained and denotative definition of “artificial general intelligence” is daft and pointless.
When does a 747 become a bird? When is a submarine a fish? When you ask an amorphous, unfocused question all your answers are disjunct from the set of possible paths to revealing the actual important questions, much less any answers.
I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader what the important questions are. But suffice it to say that though I believe some form of human-level machine intelligence is possible, we’ll never succeed in making a submarine into a fish, and we’ll also never accomplish the feat of transforming silicon and transistors into a human. A person, perhaps. But not a human.
Edge Case
I’ve always been well off the beaten path politically. Though my views have changed some since then, on a forum I used to be a regular on back in the early 2000s the exact same dude around six months apart called me an “An unhinged loony leftist” and a “Prissy never-been-laid Republican conformist.” Because those sentiments were so apposite and opposite, I took a screenshot of the post but can’t find it anymore. Was probably on some CD-R that got corrupted before I had a real NAS.
There’s no tribe I am or ever will be a part of. I just can’t bend my thinking that way. I’ll always be at the edge, wrestling with the demons of complex thoughts and real-world exigencies. For me, it’s the only way to live.
Blighted Peacock
Tattoos are the overblown exhibition of a coward who cannot define their being endogenously and must curse us all with their lack of internal self-representation. The failure of culture results in the preponderance of garish external displays of inner vacuity.
Probable Existence
“Exist” is always too heavily loaded in these discussions. And it’s always a hoot when STEM-y people do philosophy. What a mess.
I don’t feel like writing a ton tonight, but as one of the commenters points out, math is just a model of the world. It and probability is “real” in the sense that it relates well to something phenomenologically experiential.
And as usual, no one in that discussion understands quantum mechanics at all or what it means, like the doof talking about Geiger counters. Completely wrong. We could know the entire history and state of every bit of everything in the universe and we still could not predict when a bit of uranium would alpha decay and trigger the counter.
And if you then base some other event on that alpha decay the Geiger counter registers, you’d have something operating that even knowing the entire prior history of the universe would not have been able to reveal to anyone would occur. In other words, all empirically successful quantum interpretations are probabilistic. And this is not (as it is with classical probability) due to lack of knowledge. That’s the moronic (and wrong) interpretation. The probabilistic nature of QM and reality is a fundamental aspect of the universe itself.
So, is probability real? No, it’s a fucking model. Just like nearly anything else useful in science and math.
Niet Nyet
Nope. That’s the elementary school reading of Nietzsche.
Now to what ol’ Friedrich was actually getting at. He was saying that all knowledge and progress is from a perspective, and furthermore was observing that with the loss of binding religion that had pervaded all culture, we’d need to create new horizons and values, of many different kinds, all instantiated by and for humans rather than handed down from some higher power or metaphysical authority.
In other words, we must become the god we killed; Nietzsche was not saying all hope of a shared future or futures was lost, but that now we were wholly in charge of creating any of that.
As I’ve said before, the philosopher Baby Queen understands Nietzsche better than most people who read him, including Nils Gilman.
Leaves Welts
More and more people are realizing that the current weltanschauung has completely failed and that there is nothing to replace it. It’s those “New Minds” I write about here and talked about a lot on the old iteration of this blog. We need ’em, didn’t get ’em.
Absent a new sociocultural arrangement, we are in for a world of pain and probably WWIII. That cataclysm may be the only thing that gets us where we need to go, but what a price to pay. It makes me want to read the Terra Ignota series again.
Degrade
the leftist compulsion to degrade national identity in democratic countries will be the undoing of their welfare state plank, because it turns out when you remove the nation people just default to narrower identities and don't care to pay for the outgroup's well-being
— eigenrobot (@eigenrobot) August 22, 2025
Cohesive, coherent nations are probably the only structure we can support with current minds and sociocultural development that can provide something like general welfare benefits to the downtrodden.
Anything else is leftist fantasyland crap. They destroy themselves with worship of third-world immigration and clownish allegiance to Hamas and the like.
Pirates of the Technosphere
You better start believing in the technological singularity. You’re living in one.
(And have been since about 1850.)