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Played a little bit of it so far, ultimately quite impressive. Takes the baton from Borderlands in a few ways (the item rarity Uncommon/Rare/Epic/Legendary is color for color, word for word, the same), but perhaps such trends stretch even farther back. But honestly I think it works. Like a...

Ah, well, proceed. I'll hang back.

Are we just talking what kinds of vague impressions it tends to make on people? What image lands in their minds after having been filtered through this or that news source?

Would you say thats true about the Paglia posts? edit: I know nothing about her really.

Born in 1997, so I missed the window.

More broadly than the consumption of lectures, I think the major lessons I've learned are the ones I'm always posting about.

You can sense it in the demeanor and implicit positions of many of these experts and professors. Like for some of them its a passion, but for many its a job. A job they return home from. And even the passionate among them don't seem concerned enough with cultivating their internal forces to the...

From the lectures, it was primarily filling in the technical blanks. The higher order glue is the stuff I'm always ranting about on here: the tendency for physical systems to accelerate the development and advancement of such systems; patterns that recur on multiple orders of physical magnitude...

I think there is a cognitive singularity awaiting us at that crux.

But how to align the will, the emergent artificial, with the natural unfoldings and trajectories that built up to it?

Only we are situated in timescales and spacescales - scales of complexity - that are several orders of magnitude greater than those of enzymes and other such molecular apparatuses.

Yeah I think that illustrates how consciousness can (artificially) hasten physical developments at rates that exponentially surpass the (natural) manner in which physical developments unfold themselves. Similar to enzymes, in principle. Namely that certain physical apparatuses function to...

Simultaneously or sequentially? edit: ah, sequentially.

Could've just as well posted that in the crying thread.

Enjoyed it, thanks. Also like the avatar.

Could be intra-mafia contention, but yeah its probably an arrow lobbed from beyond the Hudson Moat, so to speak.

Is that an account of one of the mafiosas?

Ah, very cool. Yeah at certain points you need to double down on yourself to keep advancing.

Fair point fair point.

Interesting, I never thought about such things as tear-inducing.