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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 27 August 2014 07:54:11AM 3 points [-]

From Venkatesh Rao: The Creation and Destruction of Habits

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 27 August 2014 09:22:36AM 4 points [-]

Interesting.

From...

30/ You can strip away rituals up to the limit of your mindfulness, staying on the edge of manic-depression. This is being a sociopath.

37/ A culture cannot be both compassionate and beautiful at once without ceasing to grow. To be a sociopath is to recognize this.

39/ A culture that chooses to grow is one that systematically devalues beauty and resists the allure and comfort of pricelessness.

42/ Those who choose growth tell another kind of story, about an expanding zone of mindfulness that defines the superhuman.

...it seems to follow that the future (whatever kind of AGI, singularity, technological advance) will be ugly and sociopath. No wonder many fear this.

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