Post #1447646

2026-04-16 11:50 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116414078285695998 A salient point within by @pluralistic &quot;As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. How much more do we need to spend before we&#39;re certain that god isn&#39;t lurking in the word-guessing program? Sam Altman says it&#39;ll take another $2-3t – call it six months&#39; worth of all US federal spending. If we do that and we still haven&#39;t met god, are we done? Can we call it a day?&quot;

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@bms48@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 12:31

@InkySchwartz @pluralistic As if having to live through the collapse of Western late-stage capitalism screwing itself in the heinie wasn't bad enough, without it trying to take what is left of liberal democracy down with it...

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@rellek_m@universeodon.com 2026-04-16 12:37

@InkySchwartz @pluralistic It'll cost $3T to catalogue the nine billion names of God?

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@paninid@mastodon.world 2026-04-16 12:52

@InkySchwartz I personally love that @pluralistic is making oblique references to #ImmanentizeTheEschaton. LFG

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@wesdym@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 13:21

@InkySchwartz Those who've seen THX1138 might recall that the relentless pursuit of the protagonist only ends when his pursuers decide that it's too costly and no longer justified. However oppressive that society was, they understood cost/benefit down to the penny. Ours? Not so such, it seems.

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@cassandracorvid@mstdn.social 2026-04-16 17:02

@InkySchwartz Robert Anton Wilson FTW! @pluralistic

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@pomCountyIrregs@mstdn.social 2026-04-16 18:04

@InkySchwartz @pluralistic @lisamelton It hasn’t been lit on fire, exactly. One entity’s expense is another’s income. Now, for those who claim to believe in marketplace efficiency may, in a Professor Pangloss way, argue that this had to happen and is a good thing. I have skepticism regarding the complete efficiency and what kids once called the wisdom of crowds. But I do believe the more extended, the more painful the correction for a solution looking for a mass scale problem.

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