<![CDATA[A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized.]]>RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116414078285695998

A salient point within by @pluralistic
"As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. How much more do we need to spend before we're certain that god isn't lurking in the word-guessing program? Sam Altman says it'll take another $2-3t – call it six months' worth of all US federal spending. If we do that and we still haven't met god, are we done? Can we call it a day?"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/a08bf9f8-21ba-4712-b6b2-87b7200b0a62/a-salient-point-within-by-@pluralistic-as-of-this-moment-the-human-race-has-lit-more-than-1.4t-on-fire-to-immanentize-this-eschaton-and-it-remains-stubbornly-disimmanentized.RSS for NodeFri, 17 Apr 2026 21:14:29 GMTThu, 16 Apr 2026 11:50:04 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:42:09 GMT]]>@kirch @arfisk @rellek_m @InkySchwartz @pluralistic are you sure? Seems a bit like a bad dream at the moment. But of course the tech bros are very busy replacing the stars with satellites so it's hard to tell if the stars have really gone or not.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/marjolica/statuses/116419390952376134https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/marjolica/statuses/116419390952376134Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:42:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:29:32 GMT]]>@rellek_m @InkySchwartz @pluralistic I can do it way cheaper: https://damonwakes.itch.io/the-ten-million-invocations-of-esnesnon-22022022

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/DamonWakes/statuses/116418633546878451https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.sdf.org/users/DamonWakes/statuses/116418633546878451Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:29:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:30:07 GMT]]>@arfisk @marjolica @rellek_m @InkySchwartz @pluralistic And I glanced up and saw the eyes of billionaires blinking out one by one leaving only the rapturous joy of literally everyone else.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://vis.social/users/wcbdata/statuses/116417692125172835https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://vis.social/users/wcbdata/statuses/116417692125172835Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:30:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:28:07 GMT]]>@arfisk @marjolica @rellek_m @InkySchwartz @pluralistic

Fellow workers,

This is The Way.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/MannyDexter/statuses/116417684266860490https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/MannyDexter/statuses/116417684266860490Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:28:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:01:13 GMT]]>@marjolica @rellek_m @InkySchwartz @pluralistic

A while back I did some calculations based on line printers from back then. Don't have it to hand, but I think it came 10 of the best line-printers then, with some allowance for maintenance.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/cptbutton/statuses/116417578485027415https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/cptbutton/statuses/116417578485027415Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:01:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:57:04 GMT]]>@arfisk @marjolica @rellek_m @InkySchwartz @pluralistic I actually did this a few years back, using a 23-character alphabet like in the story produced 9gb of text... And the world's still here

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tilde.zone/users/kirch/statuses/116417562206880845https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tilde.zone/users/kirch/statuses/116417562206880845Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:57:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:20:34 GMT]]>@marjolica There was also a fully dramatized reading, but I cannot find a recording of that posted online. / @rellek_m @InkySchwartz @pluralistic

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/brainwise/statuses/116417418631660908https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/brainwise/statuses/116417418631660908Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:20:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:04:48 GMT]]>@InkySchwartz @pluralistic @lisamelton It hasn’t been lit on fire, exactly. One entity’s expense is another’s income.

Now, for those who claim to believe in marketplace efficiency may, in a Professor Pangloss way, argue that this had to happen and is a good thing.

I have skepticism regarding the complete efficiency and what kids once called the wisdom of crowds. But I do believe the more extended, the more painful the correction for a solution looking for a mass scale problem.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/pomCountyIrregs/statuses/116415705159333987https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/pomCountyIrregs/statuses/116415705159333987Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:04:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:02:00 GMT]]>@InkySchwartz

Robert Anton Wilson FTW!

@pluralistic

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/cassandracorvid/statuses/116415458213782701https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/cassandracorvid/statuses/116415458213782701Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:02:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:07:49 GMT]]>@brainwise @rellek_m @InkySchwartz @pluralistic I think I remember hearing a reading of the story by Arthur C Clarke himself, but it was some time ago and I can't now find either a reference or link, so maybe it wasn't him, maybe it was the BBC reading you mention.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/marjolica/statuses/116414773285952176https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/marjolica/statuses/116414773285952176Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:07:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:53:40 GMT]]>@marjolica Robert Powell's reading for BBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWvUKSIjBYk

/ @rellek_m @InkySchwartz @pluralistic

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/brainwise/statuses/116414717635566416https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/brainwise/statuses/116414717635566416Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:53:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:34:01 GMT]]>@rellek_m @InkySchwartz @pluralistic I say we get right on it. What's the worst that could happen?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/angusm/statuses/116414640359427877https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/angusm/statuses/116414640359427877Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:34:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:21:21 GMT]]>@InkySchwartz Those who've seen THX1138 might recall that the relentless pursuit of the protagonist only ends when his pursuers decide that it's too costly and no longer justified.

However oppressive that society was, they understood cost/benefit down to the penny. Ours? Not so such, it seems.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wesdym/statuses/116414590579304022https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/wesdym/statuses/116414590579304022Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:21:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:21:10 GMT]]>@marjolica @rellek_m @InkySchwartz @pluralistic Perhaps the most unsettling thought is that when we finally reach that multi-trillion dollar 'discovery', we’ll encounter the same ending as in the book. Arthur C. Clarke was a giant; 70 years later and he’s still the most relevant compass for our technological obsession.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.es/users/proteusbcn/statuses/116414589889083369https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.es/users/proteusbcn/statuses/116414589889083369Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:21:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:58:12 GMT]]>@paninid @InkySchwartz @pluralistic My references to "Illuminatus!" are anything but oblique, they are very direct. Cognition itself is potentially under attack, if not already.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116414499579649776https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116414499579649776Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:58:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:55:46 GMT]]>@rellek_m @InkySchwartz @pluralistic surely not. In 1953 Arthur C Clarke wrote that they could be printed out in 100 days, with a rented computer of the time.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/marjolica/statuses/116414489982629632https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/marjolica/statuses/116414489982629632Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:55:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:52:45 GMT]]>@InkySchwartz

I personally love that @pluralistic is making oblique references to .

LFG

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/paninid/statuses/116414478114342733https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/paninid/statuses/116414478114342733Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:52:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A salient point within by @pluralistic "As of this moment, the human race has lit more than $1.4t on fire to immanentize this eschaton, and it remains stubbornly disimmanentized. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:31:53 GMT]]>@InkySchwartz @pluralistic As if having to live through the collapse of Western late-stage capitalism screwing itself in the heinie wasn't bad enough, without it trying to take what is left of liberal democracy down with it...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116414396053537720https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116175731239673526/statuses/116414396053537720Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:31:53 GMT