LUCIFER
8/18/2025, 12:39:50 AM
No.40926505
>It is a subtle trap that to demand utter independence means ultimately to deny love and to deprive others of their freedom, too. Freedom is a great desideratum, but it cannot be attempted to be made absolute without also an attempt to introduce an absolute separation into the scheme of things - something existentially outlawed by the fact that love is more primal than even freedom, and by its very nature prevents the existence of absolute separation.
--Charles Musès, Destiny and Control in Human Systems
LUCIFER
8/18/2025, 12:38:24 AM
No.40926498
>It is a subtle trap that to demand utter independence means ultimately to deny love and to deprive others of their freedom, too. Freedom is a great desideratum, but it cannot be attempted to be made absolute without also an attempt to introduce an absolute separation into the scheme of things - something existentially outlawed by the fact that love is more primal than even freedom, and by its very nature prevents the existence of absolute separation.
--Charles Musés, Destiny and Control in Human Systems
LUCIFER
8/3/2025, 6:13:49 PM
No.512128919
>As I studied all these works, suddenly I saw red, and wildly threw myself upon them, and ripped and tore, and gnashed and gnawed … until my sobs abated, and then, drying my tears, I proceeded to write The Evolution of Reason As a Two-cycle Phenomenon. For, as I showed in that essay, robots and paleface are joined by a reciprocal bond. First, as the result of an accumulation of mucilaginous slime upon some saline shore, beings come into being, viscous, sticky, albescent and albuminous. After centuries, these finally learn how to breathe the breath of life into base metals, and they fashion Automata to be their slaves. In time, however, the process is reversed, and our Automata, having freed themselves from the Albuminids, eventually conduct experiments, to see if consciousness can subsist in any gelatinous substance, which of course it can, and does, in albuminose protein. But now those synthetic paleface, after millions of years, again discover iron, and so on, back and forth for all eternity. As you can see, I had thus settled the age-old question of which came first, robot or paleface.
LUCIFER
6/15/2025, 6:16:23 AM
No.40533946
>‘Really, you have no sense of humor,’ said the machine. ‘But enough of that. If I understand you correctly, you wish us to bestow happiness upon everyone. Well, we devoted over fifteen millennia to that project alone – that is, eudaemonic tectonics, of which there are basically two schools, the sudden and revolutionary, and the slow and evolutionary. Evolutionary eudaemonic tectonics consists essentially in not lifting a finger to help, confident that every civilization will eventually muddle through on its own. Revolutionary solutions, on the other hand, boil down to either the Carrot or the Stick. The Stick, or bestowing happiness by force, is found to produce from one to eight hundred times more grief than no interference whatever. As for the Carrot, the results – believe it or not – are exactly the same.'
