Kevin Oaks

To give an example of the wide spectrum of views:

When I took Russian literature, the class thought it was a tightly written novel. The professor told us that we should not expect that in other Dostoyevsky novels.

Artificial Meaning [I think I wrote this 2017; I had a computer disaster around then and I don’t think it saw the light of day. The sources are dated in some cases, but the diagnosis, unfortunately, remains as …

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The above is from R Scott Bakker

"The question we really need to be asking is what happens when we begin talking to our machines more than to each other. What does it mean to dwell in social ecologies possessing only the appearance of love and understanding?
Human meaning has a habitat, and I fear we are witnessing its destruction"

Basically, roon is trying to legitimize AI stories by appealing to anything but stories (In this case, space noise and a hypothetical library of tomes of a specific length made up of all combinations of letters).

Roon doesn't seem to care if AI generated stories ARE stories.

This is similar to the meme argument for God that goes something like, "God exists because look at the pretty trees!" The support has nothing to do with the conclusion. Finding beauty or meaning in something not related to the conclusion is nonsense.

It's a one‐sided argument for the validity of AI generated stories.

We have only roon to provide the viewpoint of Ted Chiang and some pretty terrible attempts to sound poetic or profound to support roon's side.

There just isn't anything of substance presented to be interested in

In elementary school, my class went on an extended field trip to San Diego, where we stayed at a YMCA campground.

Now, I did have fun. But they did not have everything for young men to enjoy and, due to my social awkwardness, I did not hang out with all the boys.

Their cheese enchiladas sucked.

I have never seen Titanic and at this point, I have no feelings of obligation to do so.

I've also never seen Godfather Part 2 and only saw Godfather within the past few years (within my late 30s)

One should consider the question of why the US was not on the Watchlist to begin with.

Like Ninja Warrior!?

a cat's white rear paw with oreo biscuits on top and underneath, appearing like a fluffy oreo.

pawreo

I have made that joke in my head so many times but never have the opportunity to use it!

You're welcome!😸

By the time you hear "Kyrie eleison" it's too late to escape!

The unprecedented terror and supernatural evil is a woman with ecclesiastical authority! 🙀

From the author of a book about an equally horrifying but all too real occurrence: traditional Latin Mass!

*bloodcurdling scream*

A blurry picture of Quick the Cat

A less blurry closeup picture of Quick the Cat

There are few things more annoying than someone who takes their love of dogs, makes it their whole personality and then everyone's problem.

Anyway, look at this cute meow cat who cuteily stole my work chair very meowily!

1 in 3 Americans are complete and utter losers

I could use this as an opportunity to point out how out of touch people can be or that the screenshot is real.

Instead, I'll point out that Jay and Jerry have never been to a Waffle House. People coming in and bitching about the lack of pancakes is much more common than a fight.

This is nationalist cult nonsense. Which is a hop, skip and red scare away from fascism.

🎵It just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling doooown!🎵

Have fun and happy birthday observance day!

They are very similar to conservatives in that and many other ways

Being a tarnation is better than being IN a tarnation!

"Anta baka?"

Which is strange when Indiana and Oklahoma exist!

As far as rapture theology, maybe don't rely on TikTok memes. I have extended family that sincerely believe in rapture theology, and they have never acted like the scripted TikTok videos either this week or any of the previous Rapture dates.

This gets particularly relevant with American evangelism and how they view Isreal in relation to end times prophecy.

Simplified: the requirements are for Isreal to exist and for the world to be in conflict with them, with the exception of the US because ' murica.

Somebody says "Wait so Evangelicals are ust Protestants on steroids and both of them require all Jewish people to die to fulfil their #1 goal which is supposed to happen tomorrow on the Jewish New Year and there is no conversation how that is very antisemitic. Annihilation is kinda the worst form?"

Like, it's good if you have so little engagement with Christianity in general and evangelism in particular that you only have a vague idea of what eschatological views they hold.

But maybe don't make shit up.

"That does not supersede your pug responsibilities! Hurumph!"

What's neat about having a subscription to The Economist is I can check folks' reactions to their articles and determine if they are engaging with the article or just the title.

Katelyn here engages the article honestly and succinctly and will therefore get a Quick of Approval