Lawsome1997

First person posts a random e vent, the next person posts a newspaper title for an article that blows said event totally out of proportion and then posts their own event. For instance:

 

"Football quad turns their colors to red and yellow."

 

"FOOTBALL SQUAD SUPPORTING COMMUNISM.

 

A man died of a cold yesterday."

 

"HAS A NEW KILLER VIRUS ARRIVED?

 

Previous Doctor Who says infer when he obviously means imply."

 

And so on.

 

 

A study finds that dogs are becoming more popular. Fell free to swing a massive political bias one way or the other. Don't get offended if someone else does though.

We began watching about a week ago, and I'm absolutely loving it. seeing as Community has a pretty big following, I was wondering if there were any GMC watchers?

 

Info for those who don't know:

It's that time of year again, where you don't know what to believe, and everyone is lying. Nobody can be trusted, not your friends, not your mother, NOT EVEN YOURSELF. Anything could be a lie, and belief could lead to public humiliation.

 

"Do you want some juice, dear."

 

"Yes please."

 

"TOUGH, APRIL FOOLS" *Cue everyone in the world laughing at you*

 

The only possible way to avoid any embarrassment is to avoid taking in any information at all, which is why I am currently under a desk, cradling a shotgun, rocking back and forth and muttering quietly.

 

What are your plans for survival this apocalyptic day?

 

 

I will be auctioning a (imaginary!) dollar:

 

 

Everyone has exactly $10 imaginary dollars with which to place bids.

 

At 8:00pm GMT tomorrow I will toss a coin, if it gets heads, the auction will end and the person who placed the highest bid will get my dollar. However, everyone else will also have to pay the amount they bid, even if they didn't get the dollar. If it get's tails, we'll wait 24 hours and then I'll toss again.

 

You may raise your bid at any time.

 

We will play multiple rounds.

I'm in a weird mood, I aplogise for any spelling errors but this has been lulling on my mind now and I just want to get it out there because it's driving me mad.

Most people are now of the opinion, especially those who work in neuroscience, that "we" are nothing more than machines. Indeed, we are the oddest machines that ever existed - ones of water not lighting, blood not steel - but we are machines nonetheless. Just some atoms in an arrangement that makes **** happen, nothing more.

We are also imperfect.

Sure, we get the basics right, we do the whole breathing/eating thing pretty well, but machines can do tasks better than us, and if you believe that there is no soul, that there is no human spark that no one else can have, than you must also accept something else.

Eventually, we will be capable of building a machine that outperforms humans on all tasks, we've already done it for physical and intellectual tasks, and when we work out what art is we'll outperform ourselves on that too. And then there'll be nothing, creative, physical, or intellectual, that a robot can't do better than us.

Firstly, capitalism would crash in this economy. Why employ people when a robot can just do their work better? Companies would basically remove the need to pay people for labour, and without anyone getting money, no one would be able to buy anything and the companies would crash. Basically the economy would be thrown into turmoil, so capitalism, while it has served us well, would be inadvisable.

At the same time, socialism would become more prominent, the main problem of socialism is that you need people to do work but there is no incentive to. In this 0-worth economy where no one has any value, no one needs to do work, and suddenly socialism sounds like a good idea.

But there's something else, something that gives us hope.

People value people, I wouldn't buy a book written by a robot. And while culture changes over time we will always be biased in favour of buying something a human had created over something a robot had created.

But what happens when the boundary between people and robots gets blurred?

You see, there's another thing endangering us. Every day we learn new things about the brain, at a certain point we're going to see how it works, and then we're going to able to do something mad.

We're going to learn how to make someone smarter. Not through hard work but through pills and chips, it's going to be possible to purchase IQ points. I mean, why not? If you can make someone smarter without any effort, it stands to reason you would start selling it.

The future is a place where nobody is worth anything and everything is up gradable. It's a world where the rich can buy all that they need, they can make themselves smarter, more charismatic (Assuming we find out what causes personality disorders), and better looking. And then beyond that, in a socialist world where we are all equal, the future is a place where we are no longer human. Where we have the brains, the brawn, and the charisma to do anything. We are atoms, atoms that be improved.

So now the future is a world where we are all equal, where at the snap of your fingers you can be smart, be funny, be clever. The future is a place where no man is better than any other.

But now further forward, because why stop there? Imagine now that you are in the future, all the secrets of human biology have been revealed so it makes sense there would be a way to control emotions. Sadness is a hormone, why not clear if out? You now have a "sadness-off" button. You feel down, you click it. This seems reasonable, in fact, you click the button all the time. Why not get rid of sadness altogether? There you go! No more sadness! Addiction is pretty bad, might want to lose that too. Shame. Guilt. Remorse. Anger? Hate? Fear? If you had a button to turn off those emotions, are you telling me you wouldn't click it, really?

The future will be a place in which what we view as human can just we taken away in the blink of an eye. The future is a place where we a no longer human, we are something stranger. We have all the brain, all the brawn. We have un-humaned ourselves.

So what is the point? What is life when we no longer feel fear, what is the point where we no longer desire fear? Or love, or progress? What is life?