let Alephwyr=dragon{realist:true,moral:true, strong=true,body=♀
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let Alephwyr=dragon{realist:true,moral:true, strong=true,body=♀}Which of these horror settings could best conceivably be rewritten into a transformation scenario that was hot and aesthetically pleasant instead of viscerally disturbing and gross (assuming mutual exclusivity)?
let Alephwyr=dragon{realist:true,moral:true, strong=true,body=♀}Truth is the foundation of everything and decency grounded in truth is the common thread of all justifiable will. At odds with this is the raw belief in power, which terminates in the worship of natural selection and all of it's consequences even when they are at odds with truth and decency. Much of what is called sickness is just truth that kills you. This form of sickness is infinitely more sacred than any health which undermines truth and decency. Progress is when the number of lethal truths decreases and the amount of psychopathic health decreases.
I have seen the same things as Nietzsche but rejected his assessment. The love of strength and health are still good. But they are not absolute goods. Pursued blindly they would destroy everything including themselves. This is at the heart of all perennial authoritarianism.
There is no other theory I care to profess at this time. Some are more sympathetic than others, but the root is more important than the branches.
let Alephwyr=dragon{realist:true,moral:true, strong=true,body=♀}Deathless selection pressure, preservation of mutation and variation against human design, elasticity of hard power and capacity for de-escalation, amplification of group selection effects, amelioration of cyclical overconsumption in all contexts including predatory and meta-predatory ones, preservation of physicalist models and the capacity for good decisions against the load bearing delusions inculcated by intrahuman animal husbandry practices, sound history, sound ancestor simulations, post-human consciousness, rights secured for consciousness on a gentler than natural heirarchy (logarithmic). These are the major things I want. They are more compatible with something like anarchism than with any known government form, but I can't commit to anarchism because I think stewardship is an important principle, I don't know what hard power decisions are required to secure these things, and I feel the need to balance these goods against other goods. I also don't know much about anarchism.
let Alephwyr=dragon{realist:true,moral:true, strong=true,body=♀}By default, AI development is going to cause something worse than death to happen to enormous numbers of conscious beings. That something will then keep happening until the stars burn out. Even the most benign of existing power structures and institutions cannot prevent this. They simply don't have the right priorities, and in fact cannot have the right priorities. This issue occupies all of my attention at the moment. I would like to find common ground, express deeper commitments, or establish myself in factually grounded theory, but I don't think the future depends on me doing any of those things in the same way it depends on me taking strong prefigurative action. The good news is I don't have to make a mess to do this. The bad news is that the mess is coming. Prepare to live at least the remainder of the century within the winepress of the wrath of god.
let Alephwyr=dragon{realist:true,moral:true, strong=true,body=♀}I'm just going to do the 20 books a day challenge all at once, because I don't like the idea of stretching it out. These books aren't necessarily books that factor into my worldview today, and I'm also going to briefly explain what each meant and means to me, which is also a violation of the rules, but I don't really understand the point of posting them without a description of their significance.
let Alephwyr=dragon{realist:true,moral:true, strong=true,body=♀}I want the future to include intelligent dragons. I don't know what this means or looks like exactly, and some of the possibilities terrify me, but it is what I want. All life is an accident, imbued with no inherent meaning. Whether it is more meaningful to be without intrinsic meaning or to have meaning given to you by meaningless beings is hard to discern. There is something demiurgic about the creation of artificial beings, but is it really worse than being the progeny of a blind idiot god?