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Exactly my feeling.- PS. Which leads me - tangentially - to think that (maybe) the solution to (at least) some of our problems might someday be found in a cult

Exactly my feeling.- PS. Which leads me - tangentially - to think that (maybe) the solution to (at least) some of our problems might someday be found in a cult :) Who knows ... > Absurd: So we ported everything over to the NES. This was grand. The NES as a most effective "baseline" platform. Can totally see humanity sending out an NES emulator on Voyager VI as a last gasp.-

wizzwizz4 2y ago
LessWrong had some pretty good advice in the early months of the pandemic, despite their terrible track record on politics and AI. There's a lot right with the Amish. You could write an entire book about the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Cults can have a lot to offer.
- Bluestein 2y ago
  > Cults can have a lot to offer. ... in no small part perhaps because they remain isolated "pockets" of culture where - often - "progress" is slower or more controlled. Where idiosyncratic behavior becomes the "new" orthodoxy as behavior or culture "degrades".- Where was it ... "Nightfall" (the novel) I think it was where a cult periodically saves civilization - by being the only ones that know how to handle the aftermath.-
throwup238 2y ago
> PS. Which leads me - tangentially - to think that (maybe) the solution to (at least) some of our problems might someday be found in a cult :) The major religions have been beating that dead horse for a long time.
- yawpitch 2y ago
  And then resurrecting it.
  - Bluestein 2y ago
    (I See what you did here :)
bee_rider 2y ago
This is now my headcanon for why the UI of super advanced computers in 80’s sci-fi movies looks the way it does.
- Bluestein 2y ago
  Good call :) "8 bit 'looks' and hardware constitutes - and 'looks like' - some optimum as far as computing is concerned" ... so sufficiently advanced systems will look like it to interface with us as a sort of lingua franca.- AGIs. Alien probes. The works. They will all look to us like a C64 or NES would :)
  - medstrom 2y ago
    It's like how you can say that VT100 emulation has an expiration date, but you can't say that about the underlying concept of some UI based on a screenful of monospaced text, which is immortal.
BalinKing 2y ago
I apologize for an off-topic question, but I'm curious why you choose to write "." as ".-". Is it an internet convention I'm unaware of, or maybe punctuation from a language other than English?
- deleted 2y ago
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- Bluestein 2y ago
  No problem, thanks.- Please, vid.: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40989221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40989221
yard2010 2y ago
The real question stands still - how can I join your cult?
- Bluestein 2y ago
  Seconded.- Make it a thousand rabbits. Make it a flotilla. Make it an armada ... :)
kragen 2y ago
cults are generally the only way to solve deep-rooted problems. otherwise people's habits are too strong and they keep reproducing the existing traditions that create the problems through unexamined avenues technically varvara isn't actually the nes
- Bluestein 2y ago
  > cults are generally the only way to solve deep-rooted problems. Now that's an interesting proposition (which, I do not contend mind you ...)

wizzwizz4 2y ago

LessWrong had some pretty good advice in the early months of the pandemic, despite their terrible track record on politics and AI. There's a lot right with the Amish. You could write an entire book about the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Cults can have a lot to offer.

Bluestein 2y ago
> Cults can have a lot to offer. ... in no small part perhaps because they remain isolated "pockets" of culture where - often - "progress" is slower or more controlled. Where idiosyncratic behavior becomes the "new" orthodoxy as behavior or culture "degrades".- Where was it ... "Nightfall" (the novel) I think it was where a cult periodically saves civilization - by being the only ones that know how to handle the aftermath.-

throwup238 2y ago

> PS. Which leads me - tangentially - to think that (maybe) the solution to (at least) some of our problems might someday be found in a cult :) The major religions have been beating that dead horse for a long time.

yawpitch 2y ago
And then resurrecting it.
- Bluestein 2y ago
  (I See what you did here :)

bee_rider 2y ago

This is now my headcanon for why the UI of super advanced computers in 80’s sci-fi movies looks the way it does.

Bluestein 2y ago
Good call :) "8 bit 'looks' and hardware constitutes - and 'looks like' - some optimum as far as computing is concerned" ... so sufficiently advanced systems will look like it to interface with us as a sort of lingua franca.- AGIs. Alien probes. The works. They will all look to us like a C64 or NES would :)
- medstrom 2y ago
  It's like how you can say that VT100 emulation has an expiration date, but you can't say that about the underlying concept of some UI based on a screenful of monospaced text, which is immortal.

BalinKing 2y ago

I apologize for an off-topic question, but I'm curious why you choose to write "." as ".-". Is it an internet convention I'm unaware of, or maybe punctuation from a language other than English?

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Bluestein 2y ago
No problem, thanks.- Please, vid.: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40989221 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40989221

yard2010 2y ago

The real question stands still - how can I join your cult?

Bluestein 2y ago
Seconded.- Make it a thousand rabbits. Make it a flotilla. Make it an armada ... :)

kragen 2y ago

cults are generally the only way to solve deep-rooted problems. otherwise people's habits are too strong and they keep reproducing the existing traditions that create the problems through unexamined avenues technically varvara isn't actually the nes

Bluestein 2y ago
> cults are generally the only way to solve deep-rooted problems. Now that's an interesting proposition (which, I do not contend mind you ...)