The thing is, the world in 1984 is feminist! as imagined by a bloke who hates feminism. Sex for pleasure is outlawed, makeup and dresses are banned, women look and act like men (and indeed are worse than men) instead of following their womanly nature. Itās a feminist dystopia!
I mean, if god damned Asimov thinks your book is misogynistic, you know youāve fucked up!
I donāt think I disagree with much of what Asimov is saying here! Aside from the silly bits about left infighting and scifi as forecasting (yawn), and the horrible recount of the Spanish civil war, Iāve made pretty much the same observations about 1984. Itās nihilistic and reactionary, itās profoundly misogynistic and it reeks of contempt for the working class. Itās also shockingly naive and paradoxically enthusiastic about the workings and effectiveness of propaganda and censorship. Thereās certainly nothing prescient about it. Itās baffling to me that itās still popular with leftleaning people to this day.
The most generous thing I can say is that the book might have been intended purely as satire, and as such it would at least be coherent. But sadly I donāt think this is how people tend to read it.
yup this is pretty much what happens when you grind books for xp instead of actually reading them
some important characters in the narrative Iāve completely skipped over, mostly to do with the Nature of Art (in society) subplot, because nothing actually happens in them and itās all social parties and talking
you ā¦ mother ā¦ fucker ā¦ so not only did you manage to miss the fact that this is a gay book, you completely skipped past one if not the most important theme in the novel which is language and the way people talk and write and the various ways they conduct themselves in different times and places, but oh nothing happens itās just people talking aaaaaaaaaa
also this is a funny book! itās funny! itās not all maudlin meditations upon time and memory! fuck you!
warming up on philosophy with Simulacra and Simulation
oh no baby what are you doing
im gonna shit
If I understand correctly, the only reason theyāre in such low orbit, and thus why there needs to be so fucking many of them, is to have much lower latency compared to geostationary satellites. You know, in case you need to play Quake on your satellite connection.
no fucking way
Nah, Iām not sure how much he was into eugenics (he was at the very least definitely in favour of killing invalid children), but grandiose and incoherent reactionary aristocratic bullshit is a 100% valid reading of Nietzsche.
Iām sorry but whatever you think about the actual content Iām going to be prescriptive and proclaim that the word manifesto should not be allowed to refer to opinions about management practices.
Would you say that in your life you find it hard to engage in conversation with women?
Thereās no good reason for male circumcision, but female ācircumcisionā is not comparable at all. Itās almost never done safely and it more than often involves removal of the glans clitoridis (i.e. genital mutilation). Male circumcision does not usually remove the bellend. No one can possibly equate the two in good faith.
Anyways, yeah I would say the main driver is menās rights activists, though unsurprisingly Iāve seen a fair share of antisemitism come with it. Theyāre more or less the same ideology anyway.
I believe in you Eliezer! Youāre starting to recognise that the AI doom stuff is boring nonsense! Iām cheering for you to dig yourself out of the philosophical hole youāve made!
a very gifted and experienced developer.
Donāt forget the most crucial part. The very gifted and experienced developer ā¦ is Jonathan Blow.
tl;dr i donāt actually believe the world is going to end but more importantly iām Ender Wiggin
sheās great
hey crazy idea, what if we made a vehicle that moves across the habitable surface of the crust instead
Sadly web search, and the web in general, have enshittified so much that asking ChatGPT can be a much more reliable and quicker way to find information. I donāt excuse it for anything that you could easily find on wikipedia, but itās useful for queries such as āwhatās the name of that free indie game from the 00s that was just a boss rush no you fucking idiot not any of this shit it was a game maker thing with retro pixel style or whatever ughā where web search is utterly useless. Itās a frustrating situation, because of course in an ideal world chatbots donāt exist and information on the web is not drowned in a sea of predatory bullshit, reliable web indexes and directories exist and you can easily ask other people on non-predatory platforms. In the meanwhile I donāt want to blame the average (non-tech-evangelist, non-responsibility-having) user for being funnelled into this crap. At worst theyāre victims like all of us.
Oh yeah and the gameās Banana Nababa by the way.
I was getting excited to read this but seeing the word āhyperstitionā used three times in the abstract put a bit of a damper on things hahah