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What drives both sides insane I think is that they need the other side to exist so they can exist, but at the same time must adopt a public posture dedicated to the other side ceasing to exist. The cognitive dissonance traps both into a Entangled Mutual Derangement Syndrome.
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We should send all these people to LinkedIn where the can argue among entirely befuddled corporate hashtag kiddies
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Hmm... maybe Entangled Mutual Derangement Syndrome can be used do some quantum computations. Culture war as computing paradigm.
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I'm not a centrist (that's basically #linkedin #ideology), but I am not about to factor out my opinions as (Woke + i*Alt-Right) quantum superposition as the horseshoeists want us all to. The Great Weirding is disorienting, but not THAT disorienting.
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You know what I'd really like? Some woke computer scientist making a WokeOS designed to run on Borg cubes. That way we can demote this whole thing into a WokeOS vs. urbit programming religious war and ignore it. They can translate their differences into arguments about typing.
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Oh shit. I just realized: deep learning revolution IS going to be WokeOS. It can only exist at sufficiently centralized scale of data, is rife with very real problems (inherited biases etc) to which woke concerns legitimately apply, and is going to be the preserve of Borgcorps
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And it's going to happen in China first, complete with a neo-cyberneticist governing ideology and the sensory-actuatory apparatus of a muscular surveillance state
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Near-future sci-fi idea for somebody with a masochistic deathwish: a band of blockchain-coordinated BronzeAge transhumanist types carrying urbit-powered personal computing packs in their exoskeletons taking on China-as-AGI with a cybernetic-machine-learning -panopticon presence
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Ann Leckie may have already written something like the book I'm thinking of :D
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somewhat; the ancillaries act as bodies for the AI ships, and the books use "she" as a generic pronoun. very good science fiction, you should read them.
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Ancillary Supremacy is basically the Fukuyama Last Man thesis. A big AI-type deep state staffed by daughters who kinda rule it. Like how in anthills the queen is actually the slave of the "daughters" in genetic terms.
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#AncillarySupremacist ftw
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Happy viewing It's a little odd to some that I haven't watched any of the star wars films and don't feel compelled to with the latest addition either
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