You’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are all around you

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Cake day: July 12th, 2025

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  • AGI mcguffin, once scientific research has broken through to robots smarter than humans they expect some sort of magic to allow it to continue to become increasingly and faster smarter until it becomes infinite smartness. Ignores possibilities like humans never breakthrough on robots smarter than humans, or if it does happen there’s no reason to predict they’ll continue or turn into some super genius. It’s frequently brought up as an end to justify all sorts of terrible accelerationism usually ends justifying means garbage.







  • Poverty and proximity are major factors increasing and sustaining crime, and if people don’t commit crimes they don’t become incarcerated prisoners. So better social systems for people who need it and forcing wealthy citizens to co-locate with poor citizens so they have to share the same goods and services instead of allowing a multi class system in everything but name. And for the US obviously outlawing for profit prisons and the prison slavery clause of the 13th amendment. No crime justifies slavery as a punishment. That’ll reduce prison populations by such a large amount that you could easily manage rehabilitation and humane incarceration programs for each individual.