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Mark Fisher's talk about how capitalism makes it seem like the only game in town [0] David Pearce on abolishing suffering [1] Jurgen Schmidhuber "Universal AI
by pizza 10y ago
Mark Fisher's talk about how capitalism makes it seem like the only game in town [0]
David Pearce on abolishing suffering [1]
Jurgen Schmidhuber "Universal AI and a formal theory of fun" [2]
Slavoj Žižek on "signs from the future" - also ties into [0] a bit because at one point he mentions how excess capital was found to actually reduce the efficiency of certain creative tasks [3]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deZgzw0YHQI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deZgzw0YHQI
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VCb9sk6CTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VCb9sk6CTc
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnbZzcruGu0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnbZzcruGu0
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb-wbaSUMAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb-wbaSUMAY
- griffinmmahon 10y agoŽižek on green consumerism is quite good as well, I find myself constantly thinking of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g.
- pizza 10y agoYes! I agree with him a lot that environmentalists today are too conservative - in the insistence that preternatural human effects on the environment can only be disturbing or jeopardize ecosystems. But, like Žižek likes to say: what if the opposite were true? What if we should instead aim for more radical reinterpretations of our relationship with nature, and to instead make ourselves more artificial, while also better stewards of nature - like Elon Musk's vision of humans as being a multiplanetary civilization, or getting people to realize that junk is not a disease, but a symptom of a system that enables mass rearranging of junk-substrate.
- Klaperman 10y agoIs the Schmidhuber talk about his idea that benevolence and "fun" reduces to maximizing compression of sensory experience? I really wish he would stop peddling that.