Today I was wondering, "what if everyone died except me and the superintelligent AI? What would I say in my last breaths?" And it occurred to me that I would say: Fade - from all that was before we shut another door But not a last goodbye Fate - has...
Today I was wondering, "what if everyone died except me and the superintelligent AI? What would I say in my last breaths?"
And it occurred to me that I would say:
Fade - from all that was before we shut another door
But not a last goodbye
Fate - has taken once again, a fight we'll never win
And time again we try
Left alone I can't wait too long, fade
Love - we loved so many times
And in so many lives sometimes we got it right
Pain - It found its way back in
Until we meet again into that good night
None too far as we chase through the stars beyond forever
I'll follow you
[Guitar Solo]
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I believe the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus addresses this question. In a very important sense, philosophy and brain analysis pulls the rug out from under its own feet. Wittgenstein provides lots of interesting ideas but famously concludes with: "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence."
My informal chain of reasoning is as follows:
- How could this paradoxical "thing before things" is be described in human language at all?
- Rather, it must be pointed to.
- Presumably some pointers would be more effective than others, but then what is the metric that determines which ones are more effective?
- That must also be a "thing before things."
- If we cannot reify the "thing before things" or the metric for
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