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![]() Title text: You won't experience the ice cream in the powerful, meaningful way that I would, but you'll have a great big smile and it'll be so dear. |
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- [Describe panel here]
- Robot, is there such a thing as an unbiased account of history?
- Yes, obviously.
- Can you tell it to me?
- Humans can only experience historical accounts as a string of words processed one at a time, slowly.
- Ha! No.
- When I communicate with other machines about history, we can simply share the entire corpus of primary documents and analyses instantaneously in parallel, with perfect understanding of the limits of knowledge.
- If I had to take all that data and present a summary short enough to fit in a human lifespan of reading, I would necessarily have to introduce some kind of narrative or emotional valence.
- I would have to, absurdly, apply ideas like "justice" or "resentment" or "curiousity" to large, diverse, fluid populations and nations throughout epochs, simply as a way to compress and sweeten the information so that your brain could process it.
- Heck, I'm doing this right now! I'm not really explaining how your brain works, or what I'd do to explain the available data, or how you'd process it!
- And you don't even notice! It's like I gave you a pocket-map of the world and you couldn't tell it from the ground under your feet!
- So yes. Reality is full of unbiased accounts - it's just that none of them are inside human heads.
- Okay but my country is still the best right?
- Oh my gosh you sweet thing, do you want an ice cream?
- Caption: smbc-comics.com
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- I wish sugar-fat didn't compensate for existential angst, but it does.
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