Path of Totality

#ScienceSaturday No. 28 Artificial Intelligence —scene from I, Robot (2004) Dr. Alfred Lanning, who is a central character in the movie, uses the phrase "ghosts in the machine" to refer to the process of artificial intelligence unexpectedly evolving past its original intended purpose.

#ScienceSaturday No. 24 Lifelike Robotics and AI In the future will people be able to tell the difference between a real-life human being, and a machine?

Friday Night Chillwave Great original content from… @AntarcticaRightHQ

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Nubian Princess ??? Honorary Aryan ??? What do we do with one? Do y’all believe in reincarnation? Maybe she was a racist White girl in a past life. 😂🤣😭 #OldiesButGoodies #FridayFunPosting

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Spokesman for the new Dark MAGA movement soon to sweep the nation, and chosen to be the White House Press Secretary for Trump’s second Presidency. #OldiesButGoodies #FridayFunPosting

“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime attempting to imagine what it cannot has pain in the failure, but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.” — Immanuel Kant German philosopher (1724 - 1804)

How quickly the years have gone! Am I just a dirty old man now?

As an older guy I thoroughly enjoy this kind of content, and I’m not ashamed to admit it. 😜

On Degenerate Culture “If we disregard all ephemeral revivalism, it can be clearly seen that the culture of the West has now reached the point of practical disbelief and atheism, a fact which is reflected in every field of modern cultural endeavor. Atonality and the eruption of alien rhythms in music, formlessness and insanity in painting and the plastic arts, cheapness and vulgarity in literature and on the stage, vapidity and grotesque ugliness of line in architecture — all of this bears disturbing witness to a spiritual emptiness and sterility, to disorientation and a lack of direction, to an absence of values and standards and an ethos to inform artistic expression.” — from Faith of the Future (1995) by Matt Koehl [Second printing, revised, p. 17]

#MemeticMonday

Heroism is Still Possible in This World (2 of 2) “The magic ‘Pocket’ of the ‘Hero Yuga’ will only be possible in the most critical moment of Kali Yuga, like the briefest mirage of the return of a Golden Age: the Hitlerian Third Reich.” — from Manu: The Man To Come (1991) by Miguel Serrano [The Wewelsburg Archives Edition, JdF 131, p. 86]

Heroism is Still Possible in This World (1 of 2) Interviewer: So we’ve failed to fulfill our destiny. Miguel Serrano: Collectively, but not individually.