xennobe @xennobe@qoto.org

In other words, liberalism is an evil, albeit a necessary one.

There are only a select few people that society benefits significantly from giving more freedom to. The only reason not to quash freedom and individuality entirely is because it's hard to tell who those people are.

Unless you are important, the only way to make your opinion matter is to be a normie. When you think like a normie, your desires and your values suddenly fall in line with millions of others, and what you want has a very good chance of being realized.

"Your individuality matters" is as much of a legal fiction as "everyone is created equal." It exists within culture to prevent authoritarian overreach, but the problem with authoritarian overreach is not that it's immoral, but that it's inefficient.

The idea that there is non-negligible moral value in *you*, as an individual, having a personally happy and fulfilled life is a social construct.

Don't pride yourself on your differences. Everyone has differences. Pride yourself on the ways you're exactly like everyone else. Because fitting in is hard, and it's something a lot of people are never able to do.

somebody please implement this actually

Randomly generating cellular automaton rules is so $PREVIOUS_YEAR. I prefer randomly generating particle automaton rules using stochastic L-systems.

Just read Schild's Ladder and I can definitely recommend it, along with most other Greg Egan stuff from what I've read of it.