Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th February 2025
https://awful.systems/post/3436005
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new class of kook just dropped
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existing class of kook - hooks into the Zizians
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how do you reckon? admittedly I haven’t gotten to dive full depth on the zizians but the bits I did get to so far struck me as what would happen if adolescent spock became a logical extremist
I was struck by the outright “hey we’ve got cult camp” kitted out in whatever-the-fuck they’ve done to (one of the strands of?) buddhism while also pitching this on-surface as “people are cyborgs now”
although it did remind me of how much buddhist and related reading+pondering I saw in the postrat scenes, and now I’m wondering if that’s a thing that I missed in others of this before
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Buddhist thinking has always been a big undercurrent (at least compared to the rest of the western world) in the hacker/computer science world, so doesnt have to come from anything LW related.
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it’s above-baseline among the tpots
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Compared to the hacker baseline that is odd indeed.
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