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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

The New Age Hyperreal

Apocalypse now
in the
eternal now

Autres oeuvres par Chris Gaither...
They Don’t Mean a Word They Say, but They Know Exactly What They’re Doing

In the story of The boy who cried wolf There was no wolf Until there was And there still is
Everyone Is a Stranger

Don’t talk to strangers; Sing with them
The Real “Hard Problem of Consciousness” Is Understanding That Life Is Hard but That’s Not a Problem

You have a real life if there are no easy solutions You have a real problem if there are no easy solutions but there is an easy way out
Introverts Were Well Prepared for LED Lighting

How many introverts does it take to change a light bulb? None– We turn to an inner light
E Pluribus Unum

Heads you take the risk Tails I take the reward i.e., Out of many risks, one fortune
“What we are doing is teaching computers to play every language game that we can identify”

If a computer could speak we could not understand it
“Minister of Culture, Mura Dadaev, announced Friday that all musical compositions will henceforth be limited to a tempo of between 80 and 116 beats per minute”

In the west Since we can’t control time We just buy more time An approach used elsewhere With equally mixed results
“The human brain when overwhelmed with information technology is similar to that of schizophrenic– an endless array of interfaces produces skitzovision, the desire to look in multiple places at the same time”

Just because they’re coming to get you doesn’t mean you’re not paranoid
Fraught Robot

We’d all been taught As the temps got hot That all was for naught And that was our lot So, we’d cashed out and bought
“My Head All Full of Stuffin’, My Heart All Full of Pain”

People wonder how long it will tak… AI to get smarter than us but the smart money is on us getting dumber than AI first
Don’t Play Dumbstruck; We All Know the Truth, We Just Can’t Handle It

It’s true that some people have al… But it’s not dumb luck that nobody… The way it works is that People get as much truth as they c… And the rest of their load is good…
The Internet Is the Opposite of the Torah

People complain that Jews stick t… In spite of, or, more likely, beca… That it is why Jews are still her… And always will be Jews stick together because
It’s Not as Cool as Boba Fett’s

When at last my colleagues convinced me to go out after work and I’d relaxed enough to drop my… everyone could finally see my helm…
This Poem Isn’t Funny Because It Explains a Joke

As usual, the materialist is half-… When he insists life (By which he means his life) Is no laughing matter But he will remain a halfwit until
“The ultimate reason is to create a securitized order, a general neutralization of peoples on the basis of a final nonevent... the goal is the end of history... on the basis of a preventive terror putting an end to any possible event”

The pandemic lockdowns were the pa… and penultimate nonevent because o… limits of human imagination– We could only imagine shutting everything down



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