wew lad
god i wish that were me
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what the fuck is even going on in france right now
Between this and the Monarchism, it’s going to be hilarious if he turns out to be a secret reactionary.
In 1882, the nawab of Bahawalpur, Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbasi IV, anonymously commissioned this bed from a Parisian manufacturer. Why was he embarrassed to be ordering a bed? Because Abbasi requested that there be four life-sized bronze figurines of naked women, complete with natural hair and movable eyes, holding fans and horsetails.
Wires were engineered so that downward pressure on the mattress – like a man lying on it – would set the figures in motion. Each lovely lady winked and fanned the nawab, while a selection from the opera Faust played from a built-in music box.
imagine if this guy had had facebook
the anime body pillow has been with us in some form or another since the 1800s
imagine a species with brains so big they never bothered developing the concept of categories.
they have no word for “chair” as an abstract concept, only words for each individual chair they have ever encountered.
where we visualise simplistic venn diagrams, they see the entire scatterplot.
what would we make of them and what would they make of us, I wonder.
technically they could still have a word for chair, but it would unpack to a precise definition or set of specified references, so they would be physically incapable of having arguments over terminology.
Obviously an engineered species. No naturally evolved species could afford that level of power consumption.
You know I don’t think I’ve ever seen as much fandom posts about something without ever developing any secondhand sense of what the fuck it’s about as RWBY
My ex likes it, but others in the same group don’t understand the appeal, including me. She is a fan of scythes, though.
When people are actually being rounded up and sent to concentration camps in this year of 2017 to be beaten and killed for who they are but that doesn’t matter because a fast food chain founded by people with different views than yourself has opened near your college campus
Honestly it would do fags some good to be sent to a filthy disgusting concentration camp for a while; we remove a problem from society AND they get to experience the real oppression they obviously crave so much.
are you ok
tbh I agree with the princess.
youd be the first to the camps tho
Wanna know the fun part? No one knows how I swing. I don’t keep it a secret but I dress and act like any normal person, not a walking std vial. So no I wouldn’t thivus. You on the other hand… hohoho
wow rude
ugggggggh
you can’t have military units composed entirely of fashionably-dressed ultranationalist gay men marching in beautiful parade formation as their banners fly proudly overhead if you don’t have any homosexuals
ffs, no appeciation of aesthetics by gunny here, barely even D-level supervillain tier. disgusting.
What if Earth is already the property of some galactic empire that hasn’t gotten around to settling us yet because they just purchased us off of another galactic empire a few decades ago?
What if the leaders of said empire tells its citizen to colonize Earth, and they start taking over our cities and land. They find it justifiable because we don’t use the elements in Earth’s core like they do so we don’t really own the planet.
We’re pushed to Mars, where only 1% of humanity lives in relative peace but a lot of hunger and a few international struggles, which the aliens feed into. They eventually settle Mars too, pushing us to the moons of Jupiter, then Saturn.
Eventually the empire becomes a bit nicer, and builds us a bunch of reservations throughout the solar system, though only a few of them are on Earth. Today we’re a minority in our own Solar System, mostly running Casinos on Mars or giving tours of the ruins of our once great cities. The aliens stopped calling us Meatbags though. Now they use the more respectable Native-Earthling term, though they’ll rarely acknowledge whatever nationality your ancestors had before they came.
The message of this gets over the head of a lot of people and it’s making me kinda sad.
implying we wouldn’t nuke the aliens or, if we were gonna lose, just plain nuke earth out of pure spite
no see you can’t think of it realistically you gotta take in the Extremely Woke Message that is Super Deep and Really Makes You Think
Maybe we can strike some sort of bargain where they agree to judge Islam by the same criteria.
A lot of the moral implications of Transhumanism fall along some pathways and not others.
Do you want to make a thousand copies of yourself, or do you want to have superhuman strength?
The latter is not actually that morally complicated compared to the former, but it’s still very much Transhumanism, unless you draw a boundary in which the body is a tool for tool use, and the mind is not, and thus the latter is functionally equivalent to “Humanism, but with powered exoskeletons.”
But for me, of course, it was never the forking that I was interested in, it was the youth, beauty, and power. (Well, okay, intellect, too, but that still fits fine with no-brain-duplications limits.)
So a future where prosthetic robot arms and mechanical backup hearts exceed their native human capabilities, but upload civilization does not occur, is convenient for me. All of the most terrifying implications of Transhumanism descend from the upload civilization bits, not the robot arms bits.
you can’t fool me that’s a lanternfish
This is transhumanist.
No. Toolmaking is just humanist. Transhumanism is a fantasy genre that looks like hard scifi to people autistic enough to think the no-cloning theorem couldn’t possibly apply to consciousness.
I mean, Transhumanism isn’t just upload civilizations. It’s also robot arms.
And we already have robot arms, so it’s likely just a matter of time before they exceed regular arms.
Singulitarianism, on the other hand…
Robot arms are still specialized. Only human arms are generalized. We must embark on a quest for AGA. Artificial general arms.
MIRI will of course join the effort. I wonder what the combined acronym should be.
Also, rocks are artificial specialized arms. They do more damage when you hit people with them.
Look man, all I’m saying is that we can totally add cybernetic tails to Rationalist catgirls, and it’ll only take, like, one aug slot, tops. Only 0.1% chance of a feedback loop overloading the central nervous system and causing a blackout.
So I’m gonna need you to back my Neko no Shippo kickstarter in 2033.
you can’t fool me that’s a lanternfish
This is transhumanist.
No. Toolmaking is just humanist. Transhumanism is a fantasy genre that looks like hard scifi to people autistic enough to think the no-cloning theorem couldn’t possibly apply to consciousness.
I mean, Transhumanism isn’t just upload civilizations. It’s also robot arms.
And we already have robot arms, so it’s likely just a matter of time before they exceed regular arms.
Singulitarianism, on the other hand…
Hell, even if brains are quantum and microtubules are used for calculations at the subcellular level, such that you can’t actually duplicate them without destroying them, that doesn’t even stop you from engineering brain augmentations and, on the lesser end, carrying out some pretty heavy body modifications.
The ability of the brain to learn to use experimental neuron-controlled prosthetics, and the ability of people to use that prosthetic thumb device posted just this past week, suggests you aren’t even limited to the standard human template.
This is doubly true if you can push the control hardware and software towards the extremities, as existing human bodies already do, and so you aren’t limited to what will fit inside a single standard-sized skull.
It means you can’t do Eclipse Phase, but Eclipse Phase is a nightmare.