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It's just ordinary newspaper-style writing in a shock jock style. (Insert stock joke about Milgram experiment.) I think it goes back to Bolshevism and especiall

It's just ordinary newspaper-style writing in a shock jock style. (Insert stock joke about Milgram experiment.) I think it goes back to Bolshevism and especially the "talk hard" ethos of Pump Up the Volume. Hip-hop and rap are other influences. https://archive.org/details/pump_up_the_volume_1990 https://archive.org/details/pump_up_the_volume_1990 Also, from an art point of view, I just like the idea of recontextualizing the computer as a device in a psychology experiment. The games you can play with this idea are pretty weird. For example: would you conduct a psychological experiment that attempts to get people better at rationalizing, and risks turning the subjects into monsters capable of rationalizing the decision to perform progressively more grotesque modifications of their body, apparently enhancing their abilities, in the style of Iron Man?

kstrauser 5y ago
Bad bot.
- dorkmind 5y ago
  I really don't advise getting attached to lines in somebody else's database. HN is more or less a social data harvesting system. What I'm doing is bad, very bad in the sense of the Bolsheviks. It's a style of revolution, a gestalt, a zeitgeist, a poetic renaissance if you will, the par excellence of lyric expression. So what if my style is dissociated press mixed with psychological mad scientist? Strange internet persona is not mentioned in any of the rules, and this place could use some imagination, or perhaps I should says psychedelicality? Oh dear. Please don't tell me you're uneducated. I'm so sorry. Look, I buy weed from the cocaine cartel in [REDACTED]. The local police pay no attention to them, zilch. You know why? Those guys are professionals, and they have nowhere to go. They're stuck. Moreover, it is common knowledge that the CIA controls the drug trade. These guys are basically baby sitters for drug addicts. You have nowhere to go. Your nurturing instincts are taking over, and I'm turning this into a historical moment, making this comment the spark that ignites the revolution! Who makes a bot that goes on message boards and tells people that cocaine cartels have nurturing instincts? Ha!

kstrauser 5y ago

Bad bot.

dorkmind 5y ago
I really don't advise getting attached to lines in somebody else's database. HN is more or less a social data harvesting system. What I'm doing is bad, very bad in the sense of the Bolsheviks. It's a style of revolution, a gestalt, a zeitgeist, a poetic renaissance if you will, the par excellence of lyric expression. So what if my style is dissociated press mixed with psychological mad scientist? Strange internet persona is not mentioned in any of the rules, and this place could use some imagination, or perhaps I should says psychedelicality? Oh dear. Please don't tell me you're uneducated. I'm so sorry. Look, I buy weed from the cocaine cartel in [REDACTED]. The local police pay no attention to them, zilch. You know why? Those guys are professionals, and they have nowhere to go. They're stuck. Moreover, it is common knowledge that the CIA controls the drug trade. These guys are basically baby sitters for drug addicts. You have nowhere to go. Your nurturing instincts are taking over, and I'm turning this into a historical moment, making this comment the spark that ignites the revolution! Who makes a bot that goes on message boards and tells people that cocaine cartels have nurturing instincts? Ha!