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ablation 1 days ago [-]
What an thoroughly ugly website, on basically every level.
bediger4000 2 days ago [-]
What a magnificent post! A metaphor mix for the ages - football, sailing, math, economics, physics - plus trader slang and Linkinfluencer styling. Do people read this every day and learn from it?
thatmf 2 days ago [-]
Derivatives trading is a net negative upon society and this florid prose is just one more ghastly effluvium from the sarcophagus
nh23423fefe 1 days ago [-]
Do you always cloak your hatred in pretence?
Terr_ 2 days ago [-]
I hope that this is satire of LLMs, or satire of day-traders on drugs, but I fear it is neither.
popalchemist 2 days ago [-]
Gag inducing on multiple levels. Not only the self-indulgent and incoherent writing, but the very notion that an author or authors would call their undertaking Panoptica. A panopticon is the ultimate and most inhumane prison. Idiots.
analog8374 2 days ago [-]
Being watched all the time seems nowhere near as bad as being kept in a cell or forced labor.
popalchemist 2 days ago [-]
They are not mutually exclusive. Read up on the concept of a panopticon, it is just a form of prison that maximizes the oppression by surveillance by extending it into your own mind as a paranoid knowing that you are almost certainly seen at all times. Aside from that, it still has all the features of any other prison including compelled labor. It's just that you are deprived a sense of privacy even in your mind, on top of it, which is a sort of crippling of the soul.
analog8374 21 hours ago [-]
Privacy is less important to me than it is to you. I! think that your need for privacy is something you acquired, and could unacquire.
popalchemist 18 hours ago [-]
While your statement may be true, you're clearly failing to grasp the concept; it isn't just about privacy, but about psychic sovereignty.
The crippling of the will is a prerequisite for living any kind of meaningful or fulfilling life. The eradication of one's privacy is just a means to the crippling of the will. So while you may THINK privacy is unimportant to you, if it were eradicated forcefully and totally, in perpetuity, you would be rendered essentially a brain in a jar -- for all intents and purposes, inert and incapable of self-expression.
If you don't have feelings about THAT, I'm going to assume you're a bot.
analog8374 4 hours ago [-]
how does being watched constrain my psychic sovereignty? I don't see the connection.
Being watched does not cause my freedom to see, do and think to be limited in any way, as far as I can tell.
popalchemist 1 hours ago [-]
Perhaps you should read about the topic before refuting it.
The crippling of the will is a prerequisite for living any kind of meaningful or fulfilling life. The eradication of one's privacy is just a means to the crippling of the will. So while you may THINK privacy is unimportant to you, if it were eradicated forcefully and totally, in perpetuity, you would be rendered essentially a brain in a jar -- for all intents and purposes, inert and incapable of self-expression.
If you don't have feelings about THAT, I'm going to assume you're a bot.
Being watched does not cause my freedom to see, do and think to be limited in any way, as far as I can tell.