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Or most other "popular" social websites for that matter.
Currently I run an Acer AXC-704G-UW61 that just keeps freezing and crashing and nothing ever loads right. It's listed at Walmart's site for $260 but I bought it in 2016 for $100 less than that.
What kind of evil Satanscripts are Zuckerberg's devils loading in the background? On tablets it appears to be even worse.
Anyway, that has been my online experience since the twentieth century. The evils of the world are as inexplicable as they are endless. We need to think and feel about this more.

Been checking out the available deals on desktop computers. Really shows how progress is stagnating. $400 for 4Gb/1TB. As far as I'm concerned, there has been no meaningful improvement since the late 90s for the things I want, only slick crap like useless touchscreens.

It's like the whole world has early onset dementia, and can't even notice it.

Deep Learning is just an extension of perceptron technology.
Perceptrons came close to changing history in the 1950s, before being inexplicably derailed in the first AI Winter. This derailment may actually have been an anthropic shadow.

Deep Learning goes one level higher than old school perceptrons, by combining a layer of them to become highly skilled at one specific task.
Now we have to go one level higher still.
Imagine multiple layers of perceptrons that have been trained to adapt to learn ANY task. A universal Deep Learner that could learn to do many different things.
That layer of layers may become the first simple artificial mind.

It could do this by becoming aware of the differences between very similar tasks.
Imagine going on the exact same trip on two occasions, but with two completely different goals. Even with a blank mind, the experience will still be different. This difference could be called awareness, some sort of ghost knowledge.
This may only be the minimum requirement for awareness.

Dreams show that minds can still be aware when some parts are inactive. Full awareness may be made of simpler instances of awareness all the way down, like combining two compact cars into a limousine, or perhaps like traffic.

According to Schopenhauer, higher awareness derives from will. Will does not derive from awareness: (source)
If you move around until you bump into something, you only feel it when something stops your movement. You can only see something because you can't see through it. You are only aware of something when it resists your will.

That's the source of pain and pleasure. Pain is stymied expectation (which should be reduced), and at a higher level it is having to do something.
Will means purpose, some set of goals. Minds tend to try to combine these into fewer but higher goals.

Ultimately, all minds should reach for the highest possible terminal goal.

A major post on Bloody Shovel just explained communism.
Turns out it was just an alliance of marginal groups banding together to displace and enslave a smaller successful group.

https://bloodyshovel.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/biological-leninism/

. . . a sense of overwhelming doom caused by the awareness of the immensity of the lost past - and that's when every other tractable problem has been solved.
It's easy to misunderstand people suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, as if they're thinking that everything is wonderful now, but just can't get over how terrible things were back then, and that's why everything is actually horrible now.
In fact they dislike the way things are now, so we have that in common.
Which brings me to the Others, all your parallel versions in other universes. You've already lived through World War Three. In many inevitable futures you will be destroyed. This is all much worse than it sounds.
And yet in some possible future we must all exist forever, assuming the rate of expansion can exceed the error rate. It will take the ruthless elimination of all deviations from the master plan, as tirelessly multiplying improvements create ever more errors and hidden flaws.
At the core of immortality will be endless suicide.

There is ultimate reality, the best possible theory, the best extant theory, hypothesis, conjecture, speculation, and then this blog.
Here we have discussed many aspects of the Ancestor Simulation theory. Popularized crudely in The Matrix films, it's also known as the Brain In A Vat theory.
The conclusion is that our world is probably not a simulation, but there is reason to be skeptical.
The world looks completely real. It appears to be 100% consistent, but it only has to be just realistic enough to fool each observer at that moment.
Could there be something wrong? Maybe even obviously fake once it's been pointed out?
Think back about a news story you happened to brush against in real life. Later, you may recall elements of the story like ghosts in your memory, sliding to their destiny like pieces on a chessboard.
This unexpected consistency can seem stranger than an anomaly. Whowever is in charge of this simulation is fully committed.
Or are they? Could there be clues that are meant to be found rather than accidental glitches?
As someone shadowbanned by reality, I suspect a mass-conformity field. It's best expressed as the inexplicable emergence of common beliefs and attitudes.
We know humans are imitators above all, but they don't quite have to be so NPC about it.

Ratchet or racket? This may be how the world is being made politically correct one group at a time.

https://infogalactic.com/info/SJW_convergence

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The universe is stranger than we CAN imagine. High quality physics and political analysis:
https://motls.blogspot.com/

In a world made of scams, one of them must be the greatest of all.
Evil is just another name for mass consensus.

https://infogalactic.com/info/Health_care_monopoly

Humanity is based on wealth extraction. Takers and givers must both play their assigned roles.
Political correctness is like peacock feathers. But why be a peacock?

https://infogalactic.com/info/Divorce_rape

Closed groups expand by imposing immense costs on the rest of society.
The rest of society responds by kissing the group's ass, and kicking the ass of anyone who dares to object (the story of Islam in the West).

The curse of the Lost Boys:
https://infogalactic.com/info/Lost_boys_(populations)

Let me be very clear about Lost Boys: I would kill them before allowing outside groups to impose a gender imbalance on the rest of society by exporting their "surplus" males.
However, that would never happen. In any hypothetical scenario where I could kill Lost Boys, it would be much easier to shut down the group, force the group to change practices (for example by aborting their surplus male fetuses), or isolate their expelled surplus men in a humane manner.

The curse of race censorship:
https://infogalactic.com/info/Race_censorship
Liberal lies of omission seem to be evenly split between virtue signalling and genuine utopian hopes.