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What makes someone attracted to the liberal arts
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Date: August 12th, 2026 12:59 PM Author: Metaphysical Animal Is this an intermediate phase of development wherein an individual attempts to obtain impossible mastery of the world through the intellect, and gets stuck because the whole enterprise is misguided? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063585) |
Date: August 12th, 2026 1:03 PM Author: reluctant liberal artist with good phenotype Having a phenotype that is less desirable than they think they Deserve (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063599) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 1:40 PM Author: Metaphysical Animal Mastery over the world through intellect due to insufficient phenotype (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063684) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 1:46 PM Author: reluctant liberal artist with good phenotype Yup. They become self-identifying with computers (intellect detached from physical form) because they perceive it as a frame of reality in which they have a "comparative advantage" due to the gap between their capability for abstract thought and the desirability of their phenotype
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Date: August 12th, 2026 1:49 PM Author: Metaphysical Animal Yes but as I stated on x dot Com there is an escape velocity where power, intellect and network outpace pure phenotype. It doesn't matter your normative stance on this fact. They are winning and evolutionary theory predicts this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063707) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 1:57 PM Author: reluctant liberal artist with good phenotype Yeah I agree and don't dispute that at all. Why do you think I antagonize technocapital and its adherents/apologists (computer-people) so much? Because they are such a serious and powerful existential threat to human beings
Just because one mode or form of existence is more evolutionarily competitive does not make it "morally" superior or even inevitable. This kind of thinking, which the above people always use to justify themselves, is a kind of retarded, self-cuckolding "might makes right" fallacy. I hold the human animal to be morally superior because I am a human animal and I like myself and the other humans who are like me. It's not any more complicated than that |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 2:03 PM Author: Metaphysical Animal The defining feature of the human animal, according to Aristotle, is reason, not beauty. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063734) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 2:06 PM Author: reluctant liberal artist with good phenotype https://i.redd.it/q6cagbi8usjg1.jpeg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063743) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 2:13 PM Author: Metaphysical Animal "Evolutionarily competitive" is, in fact, synonymous with "inevitable." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063752) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 2:19 PM Author: reluctant liberal artist with good phenotype (computer-person backtracking to grasp at straws)
"Wow well I'm a mortal biological life form who is going to inevitably die someday, so I guess I might as well just commit suicide now!"
*smirks at "low IQ" non-liberal artists* |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 2:25 PM Author: Metaphysical Animal Evolution is indifferent to modes of adaptation. If the Phenotype Class can't beat the Computer Identififers, then either (1) this is generally true across all possible scenarios, or (2) it is probabilistically most likely, or (3) it is unlikely, but we live in an unlikely scenario.
It could be highly dependent on initial conditions. But again if the Computer Identifiers are winning and there is no credible challenger, im not following the arguement. |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 2:35 PM Author: reluctant liberal artist with good phenotype The computers only win if AI becomes runaway super intelligent and super powerful and becomes completely dominant over "the light cone" (hate this gay term btw). Otherwise we (human animals) will just keep doing our thing after this civilization falls and the cycle begins again. Like the rise and fall of every other past human civilization/mode of existence
This is why AI is so bad and so threatening. Because it can actually end things for us for real, permanently |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 2:43 PM Author: Metaphysical Animal Those are just technical optimization problems unless you genuinely believe the nature of technology is suicide of the species (not just your perferred form of life).
That's a reasonable arguement (i.e., there are reasons for it), but its too tangled with a possible future where people in charge of AI actually support the continuation of the species and make the right decisions to keep humans alive.
Again this is different from the future you may prefer, but a K shaped future (where Computer Identifiers win) is consistent with the continuation of the species and the thesis that technology is not inherently suicidal. |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 2:49 PM Author: reluctant liberal artist with good phenotype I see no reason to believe that artificial superintelligence, selected for by competitive pressures, with no relation whatsoever to biology, would somehow be aligned with keeping the human animal alive and free and thriving
Virtually everyone else who is "into" thinking and discussing this sort of thing agrees with me fwiw. Even most of the computer people themselves, who are under some kind of delusion that "we" are going to magically "merge" with the computers or literally "become" computers (this is obviously impossible, and another symptom of thinking that human "consciousness" is somehow separate from our physical form. Mind body dualism has been a disaster for white people and for the human species) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 3:01 PM Author: Metaphysical Animal Ok allow me to reflect on this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063840) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 1:22 PM Author: The Penis Which art? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063637) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 1:31 PM Author: Metaphysical Animal Liberal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063658) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 1:36 PM Author: reluctant liberal artist with good phenotype (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063673) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 1:32 PM Author: life is a hamburger it 'teaches you how to think' I heard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063662) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 1:47 PM Author: the walter white of this generation (walt jr.) It’s the default when you look around and find yourself in college.
You’re from either a rich family (where either it doesn’t matter what you study, or you actually qualify to be a Man of Letters) or an unsophisticated poor family (that doesn’t know enough to push you to STEM). |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 1:50 PM Author: The Dismal Tide its really the only thing that COLLEGE should exist for
ofc i include math and physics and such in the Liberal Arts
basically, if what you are learning is for future labor and pay, it has no place in COLLEGE. learn all of that as an apprentice
and like maybe 10,000 american men should be admitted to college (and not, pace xo, necessarily will they be the high standardized test scorers) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 2:27 PM Author: The Penis (Dr. Brian Leiter) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063775) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 2:44 PM Author: lex (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063819) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 2:00 PM Author: Frutiger Aero Kindness tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063729) |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 2:11 PM Author: OYT was Right All Along ( ) Without liberal arts everything is just numbers: how much, how far, how Tall, what Net Worth, etc.
Do you really want to live in that world? I sure as hell don’t. I don’t even want to live in this one. |
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Date: August 12th, 2026 2:17 PM Author: cucumbers delusions and GC propaganda (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5892397&forum_id=2...#50063756) |