shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 19 2007 | music, culture, news
This article raises some great points, particularly about the way this critic reduces "whitness" and "blackness" in terms of music. I agree with many of the critiques of indie rock and what it signifies, but the critic seems to lack the self-awarness that she writes for THE NEW YORKER, one of the most high-brow publications in the country. Don't get me wrong - I think indie rock and The New Yorker have a lot to offer. They're just not end-alls and be-alls.
Quoted: New Yorker pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones has often indicated boredom and annoyance with a lot of the critically acclaimed, music-blog, and/or NPR-approved "indie rock" of this decade.
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by Nick Bostrom, Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University. Great job title!
Quoted: This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.
6 FaversViewed: 11 TimesQuoted: It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.
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