/lit/ - Literature

>>16446685
still BTFO by Kaczynski.

>>16422296
kek. this.

>>16415492
pic related. Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
by Kaczynski is chocked full of grand statements backed up with solid argumentation.

>>16393634
to destroy AI!

>>16384754
written three books, published two, with another on the way, both getting great reviews and are some of the best books ever. of course censored by academics, media and all other tools of the industrial system.

why do you ask?

>>16368766
no, it can't be. it's too logical and well supported.

goodnight

>>16326669
pic related. sorry, it't unironically the only way.

>>16324769
Ted addresses all of this in Anti-Tech Revolution, Chapter 3. And he shows why leftist revolutionary movements are bound to fail.

Read it now.

>>16273629
join the revolution.

read him

>>16263402
nothing pessimistic about tk.

>>15380225
yep

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>>15229884
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How > ISAIF

>>15229785
jesus, you're unironically retarded.

>>15224579
you either don't know what your talking about or your been brainwashed

>>15032619
Lolno

>But when all people have become useless, self-prop systems will find no advantage in taking care of anyone. The techies themselves insist that machines will soon surpass humans in intelligence. When that happens, people will be superfluous and natural selection will favor systems that eliminate them-if not abruptly, then in a series of stages so that the risk of rebellion will be minimized.

>Even though the technological world-system still needs large numbers of people for the present, there are now more superfluous humans than there have been in the past because technology has replaced people in many jobs and is making inroads even into occupations formerly thought to require human intelligence. Consequently, under the pressure of economic competition, the world's dominant self-prop systems are already allowing a certain degree of callousness to creep into their treatment of superfluous individuals. In the United States and Europe, pensions and other benefits for retired, disabled, unemployed, and other unproductive persons are being substantially reduced; at least in the U. S., poverty is increasing; and these facts may well indicate the general trend of the future, though there will doubtless be ups and downs.

unironically the most insightful book i've ever read. should be required for every college student...but we all know why that won't happen.

plus, you have to have like, at minimum, a 130 IQ and the ability to sit and read undistracted for several hours to appreciate the arguments. It's not a book for dim-bulbs.

>>14952446
There is a current of thought that appears to be carrying many technophiles out of the realm of science and into that of science fiction. For convenience, let's refer to those who ride this current as "the techies." The current runs through several channels; not all techies think alike. What they have in common is that they take highly speculative ideas about the future of technology as near certainties, and on that basis predict the arrival within the next few decades of a kind of technological utopia. Some of the techies' fantasies are astonishingly grandiose. For example, Ray Kurzweil believes that " [w]ithin a matter of centuries, human intelligence will have re-engineered and saturated all the matter in the universe." The writing of Kevin Kelly, another techie, is often so vague as to border on the meaningless, but he seems to say much the same thing that Kurzweil does about human conquest of the universe: "The universe is mostly empty because it is waiting to be filled with the products of life and the technium... " "The technium" is Kelly's name for the technological world-system that humans have created here on Earth.

Most versions of the technological utopia include immortality (at least for techies) among their other marvels. The immortality to which the techies believe themselves destined is conceived in any one of three forms:

(i) the indefinite preservation of the living human body as it exists today;
(ii) the merging of humans with machines and the indefinite survival of the resulting man-machine hybrids;
(iii) the "uploading" of minds from human brains into robots or computers, after which the uploaded minds are to live forever within the machines.

>>14847817
>hasn't read it and doesn't know what he's talking about.

>>14845960
cringe. just look at that pretentious spoiled mid-wit.

>>14787443
because everything Kaczynski says.