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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzFUCK
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    2 days ago

    Gonna say it. That’s a terrible idea. Dreams are random data streams based on what is being stored into long-term memory as you sleep. Being able to witness dreams is not something you want. Experiencing dreams while they’re happening is cool, sure, but being a passive witness to the madness in your skull is not going to be a pleasant time. That’s not even including being able to view other people’s dreams. The accusations of infidelity. Nope, let’s open that pandora’s box.

    Am baffled by the inclusion of ai in this comment, though. Feels… out-of-place? Like trying to predict the future, badly. Like retro-futurism.










  • I mean, yes but also extremely no. Rand’s influence ends about three feet away from those books. The Chicago School of Economics, The Cato Institute, and The Heritage Foundation are the real powerhouses here.

    That, plus good ol’ racism and the oil crisis of the 70s are why we missed the bus on robust social safety nets. (Boomers were making actual societal change, but then the oil crisis turned a majority of them into conservatives)







  • Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

    -Sartre