[firstpersonsugar-deactivated201]

this is EXACTLY the kind of thing I think about and should be written about

[theweirdwideweb]

From the Wikipedia page about the Fermi Paradox: Given the high scientific probability for alien existence, why can we find no evidence of their existence whatsoever?

[othernotebooksareavailable]

A poem about loneliness

[digitaldevilstory]

my youtube video titled "realistic morning routine"

birds: shrieking in distress

fog: thick

me: sits up in my woodland hut, which is elevated by two giant chicken legs, and coughs up 45 cigarette butts and a single human bone

[blogging-at-your-funeral]

[fortooate]

a basilisk, irradiated by a dark moon in its egg, hatches to find that it turns all of the stone that it sees into flesh. pebbles become slime molds, sand turns into millions of dead ants, mossy boulders transform into the fresh corpses of woolly rhinoceroses, seized by the rivers they sat in and pulled lazily downstream

the creature dies, bereft of nutritious stone to eat, in less than a month; we are all ignorant of how much luck we spent in that, in its starved wanderings, the lefthand basilisk never departed from its old forest, onto the white, flat plains beyond, and never saw, with its sharp yellow eyes, the mountains on the horizon

[die-rosastrasse]

[folkartfiend]

American visionary Howard Finsters painting “And the moon became as blood”

[artfilmfan]

Picnic (Shunji Iwai, 1996)

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Spiral finger ring. Period: Hellenistic Medium: Gold

[nemfrog]

The radiating sun. Carte astronomique de l'Univers. 1878. Map detail.

[wepon]

VORED BY ROKO’S BASILISK

[novafigura]

wepon do you take constructive criticism on your posts

[wepon]

that depends on whether you’re a malevolent AI from the future intent on torturing all who will oppose you

[cetaceanhandiwork]

so the interesting thing about Roko’s Basilisk in its original formulation is that it explicitly did not intend to describe a malevolent AI, but rather a successfully constructed benevolent machine-god. the argument was, that the faster such a god is built, the faster all sentient life passes into a world of perfect bliss. thus, in a pure utilitarian calculation, you can justify a wide variety of policies that would incentivize people to bring about that goal faster - even ones that inflict harm as a byproduct (if that harm be less that the harm prevented by the time saved).

however, because we’re essentially talking about a simulated Pascal’s Wager here, there’s an interesting loophole: it’s only as valuable as the threat. the simulated “you” who’d be rewarded/punished and the IRL “you” who can donate to OpenAI or whatever are completely different “you”s; the extortion only works because you don’t know which “you” you actually are. in which case, a truly benevolent machine-god could get full mileage out of the bribe/threat without actually having to execute the threat part in the long run; it’ll only bother simulating the ones who obeyed, since simulated torment for the ones who didn’t obey would cost ∑utility for no after-the-fact benefit.

long story made short: you will probably only be vored by Roko’s Basilisk if you’re into that sort of thing

[digitaldevilstory]

i drew this three years ago. unexpectedly good self-portrait

[thunderstruck9]

Emil Schumacher (German, 1912-1999), Paripa, 1961. Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm.

[quotemadness]

You are beautiful, but you are empty…One could not die for you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via quotemadness)

[mansionbasement]

Silent Hill (1999) for PlayStation

[90smovies]

Fallen Angels (1995)

[yesterdaysprint]

The Topeka Daily Capital, Kansas, January 4, 1903