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Some Samsung exec in the smartfridge division worked 100-hour weeks trying to "do something with AI" and ended up with this.

“For what is the highly touted reason with its omnipotence, infallibility, effusiveness, certainty, and evidence? An Ens rationis , an **oil god,** to which a shrill superstition of irrationality imputes divine attributes.”

The oil god modernity manifested:

You need to be security-through-obscurity-maxxing. You need to be imperceptible in the dark forest. Your actions need to be chaotic and self-ironizing. You need to turn your sensuous characteristics and behaviors into an interpretive trap for those who would seek to pattern your moves. You need to be planting false leads and heuristic traps. Your propinquities need to be delusional and holographic. James Jesus Angleton-core. A knife in the dark. A wilderness of mirrors. You need to be anti-telic

So to recap:

1stness = vibez

2ndness = leo_pointing_meme.jpeg

3rdness = pointing_spiderman.png

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Society if Harvard hadn't actively discriminated against both CS Peirce and Norbert Wiener in the early 20th century:

The stoic practice of oikeiosis formalizes the moral schema of "near" and "far" ethical obligations. In modern practice, the inclusion of the "far" margins of ethical life have been recognized in 2 ways:
1. The most popular practice is to find the most ethically "far" constituency and to use this constituency as the cause that you champion as demonstration of your ethical commitment.
2. The less common approach is to identify the seams, the frontiers of discontinuity for ethical practice.

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Just yield one more thing to the grave, bro, I swear just one more little bit of the living vitality of the cosmos needs to be traded away for power and control. Once you submit to death just a little bit more, you'll be like God. I promise, bro. It's just death. It happens all the time. You don't have to make a big deal about it. Just embrace death a little, please.

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