I'm literally trying to instate post scarcity according to the most liberal stable scheme I can conceive of.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
all conceptions of post-scarcity are narrowly subjective "scarcity", if it's a fundamental problem (which thank god it is), is what drives us to progress sacrificing all progress- *all meaning outside a definition of scarcity*- to solve a *sliver* of scarcity, is nihilistic
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Replying to @Alephwyr
what cost are you willing to pay (or cause other people to pay, which is the real question) to achieve "post-scarcity"? that's you choosing, politically, what meaning will be discarded for *your* meaning this is nihilism (if you even care about nihilism)
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Replying to @averykimball
The destruction of all self-described modes of authenticity that are inseparable from biology.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
cockroaches follow a biological meaning are... you team cockroach i mean, wholly diving into nihilism here is at least a position i can engage with, i love talking about meaning
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Replying to @averykimball
I literally said I want to abolish biology. That is anti team cockroach. And I am substantially more nihilistic than most people, yes. But not a pure nihilist as you keep suggesting.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
ah, sorry i misunderstood (i was actually surprised, it didn't seem like you were *remotely* team cockroach, at all, in any of our discourse!) tho, i would argue that abolishing biology is a spook, too ems are biological- they require sustenance, and arguably would reproduce
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Replying to @averykimball
Sunlight or nuclear power don't require death though. The electrons are going to radiate anyway. The stars are going to die one day anyway.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
carbon fuels don't *necessarily* require death, either (i mean, except plants, millions of years ago, but that's not an obvious moral consideration) but biological scarcity, with quadrillions of ems vying for life, isn't necessarily solved
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True. And I suppose there is a hint of wishful thinking there. But I am in hell, and refuse to abandon hope.
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Replying to @Alephwyr
dude, how much of your hell is a call to self-overcoming, rather than a call to overcoming some malignant external reality it's easy to be pessimistic when your locus-of-control is wholly externalized, and your will is always thwarted!
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Replying to @averykimball
I can't not be transsexual, nor can I even modify my body sufficiently. If technologies emerged that made this possible I wouldn't be able to afford them. And I would still be trapped in a largely hostile society.
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