That gif is amazing.
Ever since I've been a kid I always had the thought that maybe I'm the only one that actually exists and everyone else is just made up by my consciousness. What's really weird is when you've learned a new word you'd never heard before and all of sudden you're hearing it all the time. Though I suppose it's a lot like when you buy a car and suddenly it seems like every second car is the same as yours. Stupid pattern seeking brain.
Also simulation theory.
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.
The core claim is that a hypothetical, but inevitable, singular ultimate superintelligence may punish those who fail to help it or help create it.
This is not necessarily a straightforward "serve the AI or you will go to hell" — the AI and the person punished need have no causal interaction, and the punished individual may have died decades or centuries earlier.
Furthermore, the punishment is for those who knew the importance of the task in advance but did not help sufficiently. In this respect, merely knowing about the Basilisk — e.g., reading this article — opens you up to hypothetical punishment from the hypothetical superintelligence.
Note that the AI in this setting is supposedly not a malicious or evil superintelligence (AM, HAL, SHODAN, Ultron, the Master Control Program, SkyNet, GLaDOS) — but the Friendly one we get if everything goes right and humans don't create a bad one. This is because every day the AI doesn't exist, people die that it could have saved; so punishing you or your future simulation is a moral imperative, to make it more likely you will contribute in the present and help it happen as soon as possible.
Yeah I've had similar thoughts as these. It's all an elaborate illusion and what not. Always liked this Bill Hicks bit that touches on that idea a bit:
Ha I remember that one, it was the Dulce base in New Mexico. This shit is gold:
https://roadtrippers.com/us/dulce-n...lien-cave-base?lat=40.80972&lng=-96.67528&z=5
Oh and here's a helpful infographic of the different levels in the base :lol
Stuff like the Lost Cosmonauts. Mixture of space and secret Soviet era secrecy is really inviting (regards of how nonsense it is)
I love conspiracy theories across the board and i believe many. Where believe means agnosticism.
Fuck, this got me lol.JFK shot first.
I wish there were more Pychon-type conspiracies where the conspiracy is that an ancient, secret cult wants to deliver pizza or something.
That's not how words work?
This topic showed up on reddit a few days ago and the one I liked is that we used to live in a universe where the books/show was called BerenstEin Bears (ask anyone and they'll remember it that way) but we've since shifted into a universe where it's called BerenstAin Bears and always was.
I don't much believe it, but I like the theory that the Gita described nuclear warfare. Has a nice symmetry with Oppenheimer quoting it when it was (re)discovered.
http://www.ajithkumar.cc/history/nuclear-warfare-in-ancient-india-the-proofs-beyond-doubt/
https://theextinctionprotocol.wordp...-among-indus-valley-civilizations-reexamined/
Uh...it's always been Berenstain. Everyone knows that, right? This is a joke? FWIW I was born in '74.
This is called solipsism. Man, Bill Hicks certainly was no Hendrix or Cobain. If he were still alive the amount of material that crappy would overshadow him for sure.
So... they were fedora-wearing computer geeks? (that's from here, had to reverse image search)And guess what? While one or two of the reports could certainly have been the result of visits from or surveillance by people at an official level, the majority of the 15 or so accounts I received were of the classic Men in Black type. Thats to say the pale-faced, scrawny, staring-eyed, Fedora-hat-wearing kind. And almost all of them dated from as late as the last decade or so.
John Titor will never be topped.
Ok? You're comparing Hicks to them why? Can't deny the dude was a damn good standup. Would be interesting to see his act today, but automatically projecting where someone's career or quality of material would be if they'd lived seems silly.
I'm not projecting, I'm reviewing. His "we are all one-ness in the great chakra of love and the eternal bosom of Equality," quote is is vomit worthy when you consider his conspiracy theories, his lame insults to that heckler, and his pointless insults of bands during the time.
He's a artist who died young so he gets compared to others who did and are revered.
That Jewish bear conspiracy is so stupid I have to counter with Roko's basilisk.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
The quote you're talking about was part of a joke about how the media only reports on extreme behaviour associated with drug use, instead of the far more common and boring occurrences like someone sitting on a couch and coming up with iffy philosophy.I'm not projecting, I'm reviewing. His "we are all one-ness in the great chakra of love and the eternal bosom of Equality," quote is is vomit worthy when you consider his conspiracy theories, his lame insults to that heckler, and his pointless insults of bands during the time.
He's a artist who died young so he gets compared to others who did and are revered.
Eh, I think most of his conspiracy theories were done in satire, don't know if he really bought into them that seriously. Part of the act and what not. And yes, he was not very nice to that lady. To each their own, I thought he had an incredible knack for delivery.
The quote you're talking about was part of a joke about how the media only reports on extreme behaviour associated with drug use, instead of the far more common and boring occurrences like someone sitting on a couch and coming up with iffy philosophy.
Ha I remember that one, it was the Dulce base in New Mexico. This shit is gold:
https://roadtrippers.com/us/dulce-n...lien-cave-base?lat=40.80972&lng=-96.67528&z=5
Oh and here's a helpful infographic of the different levels in the base :lol
Ok. Maybe he was less sincere than I thought. I probably take him more literally than other comics because we don't get to see him "off" like if he was on Letterman's or John Stewart's chair. The 80's were kind of about character.
Now this is interesting. I'd like to see how the LW community freaks out if someone ever makes a movie out of this concept
Videos show purported victims of gang-stalking physically approaching and filming U.S. Postal Service employees, electrical company technicians, and people simply walking down the street to implore them to stop gang-stalking them. One viral video poster repeatedly shouts that she has done nothing wrong, and that the seemingly dumbfounded gang-stalkers should stop following her.
People these days are far less accustomed than they once were to the sight of animals that have died in the field and been picked at by carrion eaters. This is because we just don't need to deal with the same kind of widespread pestilence or numbers of livestock predators that our forbears did thanks to modern farming techniques.I always found Linda's Howes reports on cattle mutilation to be fascinating. Anyone figure out what is killing those cows and sucking them dry?
What's that from?
Beyonce was never pregnant.
I'm not projecting, I'm reviewing. His "we are all one-ness in the great chakra of love and the eternal bosom of Equality," quote is is vomit worthy when you consider his conspiracy theories, his lame insults to that heckler, and his pointless insults of bands during the time.
He's a artist who died young so he gets compared to others who did and are revered.
There's supposebly video of someone faking a punch and him flinching