Aravo Celta

i'm sure the cool kids are annoyed at fandom artists saying it has no soul or whatever.

But like,

it makes ugly shit people don't like unless they are stupid, and in exchange it generates no value for shareholders outside of an enormous possibly fatal economic bubble. It is devouring energy somehow worse than bitcoin and at least bitcoin could sometimes buy you drugs. It's putting people out of jobs then allowing them to be hired back to those jobs for less money and worse conditions. It's bad at all the shit we try to do with it besides the really obstruse research type stuff we were already doing with this type of thing more than a decade ago. it's making people markedly dumber and more unpleasant.

like, "ohhhhhh i used to be on Lesswrong, I think the water usage and AI psychosis arguments are overblown!"

if it makes even a single person kill themselves and wastes even a glass of water it's too much. and I fucking love wasting water and people not being alive anymore!

like, if AI so much as stubbed my toe it doesn't deserve to exist.

#Gaylor, the fucking gaylors are dissecting the wedding footage like the Zapruder film. The dress is fake! It's AI! She COULD still be not married to that man with an IQ too low to give informed consent!

YES!

aw man. unapologetic gaylor posting is like a cool drink of water to me.

shine on you crazy diamonds. Tswift will pop out 5 spud headed infants with that guy and these unmedicated broads will be explaining the idea of the stork.

maybe be less concerned with "being invited to the cookout" in the spiritual sense and be more concerned with being invited to the cookout in the regular sense of being a chill enough hang that it doesn't feel like a threshold is being crossed to break bread with you.

there is, it seems, a great benefit to being unburdened by the baggage, something you cannot consciously do yourself. In a way, it seems as though maybe the "Colorblind racism" people were right. Simply being around that other caste of people in such a way that you naturally feel as though you belong, starting such a practice young, that's the way of it.

My government teacher in highschool was Lebanese, but could pass for white, he married a very pale woman and he knew his kid was going to be more or less white.

So he looked around at the dire situation in the podunk little burgh he taught in, and figured the best thing he could do is move his family to the perfect nexus of immigrant and non white neighborhoods in the nearest large city. He told us that this was a conscious decision so that his daughter would always grow up around a variety of different people that often wouldn't look like her. So she wouldn't inherit that weird thing white people got. I don't mean the racism, I mean the other thing. you know?

and I look back at that and I think that may have been a way more well thought out idea than trying to bash people over the head with various competing white guilt theories written by white folks and aimed at a white audience.

like. if whatever was going on here was as simple as the first thought you had about this silly nonsense when you were ten, then the first cave person to have vague notions of spirits would have figured it out 50,000 years ago and none of it would have caught on.

The formalizing of the scientific method, as you received it in your gradeschool history course, was not the first time people understood the idea of testing things. or checking. or the idea of evidence.

The very first person to attend a meeting of unibrow owners around a sacred rock also thought "well what if i say the thing you're not supposed to say, will lightning strike me dead?" they thought "but I cannot see any of it, and mighty convenient that it's somehow invisible."

People built pyramids and solar calenders and irrigation systems and complex logistical networks while immersed in a world of spirits, gods, and superstition.

None of these people were so dumb that the same doubts I had in the funeral home at age 8 had never occured to them.

and beyond forced conversions and internecine religious conflicts, daily religious belief and observance was not enforced at spear point. If the only thing upholding religiosity throughout history was force or social coercion then we wouldn't have religion or spiritual practice before settled and organized societies.

I am not preaching any particular faith or creed, I just also think that supposed objective and scientific anti-theism is far more dogmatic than people think.