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I can destroy American government - it's trivial.

I want to take away the hope of the Chinese as well.

Because, wherever you are on this world, I can end you.

They were ordered to by the people who own them to pursue this short-term goal, because the human species has been evolved to be indifferent at the collective level of intelligence to care about actual survival.

Security theater is nothing more than a pseudo-intellectual choke-collar manifest in one's ability to fuck sexy, drive fast, and live in a retarded box much too large - since all boxes are too large to live in.

Some people say that the brain isn't a computer, but I'm still going to use that as a metaphor for the brain. Also, I think the brain is a computer as far as we understand, and technically I know we don't know what a computer really is because we're lacking understanding in fundamental physics, but I don't want to go there.

When someone uses a substance, it alters their mind in two main ways. It changes the information processing in terms of the information selected from the environment and how it's processed, and it changes the qualia of subjective experience – and I include emotional sensation as qualia as well.

The War on Drugs is a claim that all other changes in state of mind other th

You don't have free will. There is/are no god(s). Aren't you curious? For "security" reasons?

Don't you want to know what it's going to be like 10,000 years from now?

I know you're all about "security". Want me to inform you just how "secure" the human species is? We can actually do this mathematically. I know the right questions to ask. I really do.

Because it's a fucking parasite.

Where are the real transhumanists? Evolution has produced a failing ape psychology. How does this get transcended before the Universe ends us?

This won't seem collapse related, but it is becuase it pertains to memetic evolution, but I'm not going into the details. If you can't "see the machine" then no amount of words will break your illusions.

Our species can not give up religion. That means that we will always be generating enough existential risk, given the lack of people willing to dissect the implications of the human mind, that the probably of extinction will rapidly approach 100% on deeper time scales (of course never getting there by this mechanism alone).

This species will try to pull a few nonbelievers out of the woodwork now and again to try to save its ass - and it probably will a time or two again while causing nothi

Someone asked me to explain a comment I made a long time ago about the order of civilization causing the disorder we see in the world. Since it turned into a short essay I thought I'd post it here for people interested in this perspective on collapse issues.

I use “entropy” in a few ways. One way refers to the statistical mechanics definition. Imagine a gas at a given temperature, pressure, and volume. There are many different configurations of atoms in the gas that can give rise to those particular measurements. That is, the gas molecules are always moving around, but in doing so can maintain the same macroscopic measurements (mostly since these measurements won'

(There's not a lot of direct collapse talk in here so it may not qualify, but I think it's relevant to collapse because it has aspects of the "collective human machine".)

I want to describe the collapse from the perspective of someone under the influence of cannabis, the strain of which is unknown to me. (At least that was the plan, but it also sort-of turned into pro-pot propaganda.) This essay isn't going to make any arguments about the utility or otherwise of this. It's just to point out elephants in the room. Places where connections aren't being made.

This essay sees the human animal with respect to particular kinds of ignorance. The point in drawing out the obvious is that, when seen

Does this statement have meaning, however defined? More fundamentally, what is it about our species that allows such a statement to be considered?

This is the first part of an outline of a model attempting to explain why the global, exploitive hierarchy of our species exists. This is a gloomy model. It doesn't predict just collapse, but also human extinction since it explains the impossibility of the global, collective action required to mitigate the most destructive existential risks our planet and Universe can create. It also explains why we can't mitigate the existential risks we cause ourselves (e.g. there's always going to be an Exxon suppressing data that reveals threats to the entire planet).

The outline is taking longer than I thought, so I'm only posting part of it today. If it seems people are interested I'll post the rest.

First a quick summary of the beginning of the article:

Let [; s ;] be a number of symbols from which we can make a selection and let [; n ;] be the number of selections from these symbols. Then the number of possible sequences involving [; n ;] selections is [; s^{n} ;].

But we want to define the amount of information in a given symbol sequence as proportional to the number of selections made as opposed to the number possible sequences. So let [; H ;] be the amount of information in a given sequence, and let [; K ;] be a constant of proportionality so that the information in a given sequence is given by

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