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12-05-2015 , 04:31 PM

Tumaterminator

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The age (era) of dissolving religion conveniently overlaps the internet age we are currently in. Changing how people think, accelerating the forming of human relationships, business and infrastructure (such as Uber, Banks, Satellites, etc.), are just some of the qualities the internet provides.

Besides better porn, what else can be dreamt up?

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12-05-2015 , 08:17 PM

Zeno

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You can annoy more people, more quickly, with less meaningful content, and it propagates faster than ever before.

On a more useful note, the scientific method help create the internet. So think along those lines for "what else can be dreamt up?"

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12-05-2015 , 08:25 PM

Wilfred1

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I really think we should just focus on using it to create better porn

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12-05-2015 , 09:50 PM

spanktehbadwookie

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Once the world's hooked-up, anyone who aspires to think well can connect and communicate about how to communicate well and think better so we can connect better because we can each aspire to think well. IMO, also lots more and even better porn.

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12-05-2015 , 10:48 PM

mackeleven

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I thought I invented teledildonics about ten years ago. The original thought theory killed my ambitions.

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12-06-2015 , 11:18 AM

chezlaw

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Direct access to each others brains will be massive. We will plug ourselves in and boundaries will start to merge. Not just human to human either. Human-machine will be huge, maybe human-other animals as well.

Sex will obviously be a huge part of it but there will be serious debates about whether it's porn or whether it's actual.

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12-06-2015 , 11:52 AM

plaaynde

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The Internet is just the default now. As the English language.

Used for everything.

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12-06-2015 , 03:34 PM

Kristofero

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#skullwalk

Sex remains biological and isolated privilege. Everything else gets amplified, i.e. food, pain, warfare.

Instead of simulating CoD: who cares, you get to go back to places like Vimy, Ypres, Iwo Jima, Thermoplyae, Roman wars [with the Alesian exception], Battle of Demetrias, and Kursk for some reason is an uberpopular destination. I wonder though, because if you gonna war, why wouldn't you want to be run through with a blade instead?

I didn't manage to finish my cuppa of tea @Hiroshima. I sure minted 80k postmorals though!

Sex's too dangerous and none of you are getting any. Tracking criminology is already painful across a few billion, let alone a few quadrillion with c-lag.

Do write your nearest Congressbot if you ain't pleased with the lack of pleasure. Have a footlong instead.

-#skullwalk getme?

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12-07-2015 , 02:36 PM

Lexovix

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Originally Posted by Tumaterminator

Open source internet voting. Like ASAP. Beyond ASAP, not even funny voting on paper with the internet out.

Can also use the internet to express the direction as a collection of energy that I think the collective collection of energy should go! Global Communism with a council format of individuals prepared to have absolutely nill privacy 24/7 and global opensource internet voting!

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12-08-2015 , 01:24 PM

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Morphismus

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online gambling

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12-08-2015 , 01:35 PM

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Kristofero

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Originally Posted by Morphismus

online gambling

Like duh?

Anything and everything. That's the beauty of postmortal gin.

[D^ actual Victor Frankenstein intention]

getmemeanin. there is ONE exception.

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12-08-2015 , 01:46 PM

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mackeleven

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Originally Posted by chezlaw

Direct access to each others brains will be massive. .

I love Ben Goertzel. This video goes into that and Virtual worlds, tranhumanism, abundance and cosmism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2ywYwIlCrc

Last edited by mackeleven; 12-08-2015 at 02:03 PM.

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12-08-2015 , 02:09 PM

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Kristofero

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Jump 225 trilogy.

Beentheredonethat. York, spring '12.

gg.

Like Gibson paraphrased: Once future is, mon, it was.

Last edited by Kristofero; 12-08-2015 at 02:10 PM. Reason: There's also Hannu's Jean le Flambeur series.

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01-08-2016 , 12:20 PM

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k_trigs

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being old enough to remember when the internet wasn't a thing yet, i remember first hearing about it and contemplating some massive group collective thinking brain complex where humanity's groupthink could work to collaborate on the biggest and best ideas that humanity could ever offer.

now, many years later, it seems that our wonderful collective of human minds have combined to make infinite amounts of porn and youtube clips of kittens. way to go everyone!

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01-08-2016 , 12:33 PM

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plaaynde

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When first hearing about the Internet I thought it was a joke. Just couldn't be. Getting everything for free? WTF, just, WTF?

Should have started looking at it a bit before 1996.

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01-08-2016 , 01:54 PM

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mackeleven

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zero marginal cost society. very interesting. i listened to Peter Diamandis talks on abundance but didn't realise some thinkers such as rifkin are envisioning a clear path there involving the internet of things.

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01-08-2016 , 04:26 PM

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spanktehbadwookie

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Total information control by authority is difficult. Thanks science.

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