Hacker Memes“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
- Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)
gary@i0null writers get paid to live in a fantasy world and avoid the real issues in life by making art - they enslave themselves to a shadow realm of pity and sand worms
@gary_alderson i'm not sure. some might say that art is infinite whereas computation is arbitrary and finite.
@i0null if you are moderately successful as an artist you can get drunk daily and watch pro wrestling - it is not infinite but close enough