Using a simple text prompt I can immediately generate any kind of image I want. It’s not that much different than a wizard casting a spell.

Yeah, especially if Q* and other AIs can be based in mathematics so it can invent new things that actually work.

Even a simple LLM is a window into the Jungian collective unconscious at time of training, but nobody seems to talk about the philosophical implications of what we have right now.

The Age of perfect robo wives.

For normal humans yes, for those that merge not so much.

There’s websites showing how you can build technomagick circuits with batteries and leds and sigils / potentiometers. I don’t know how it works or if it does but there’s a lot on it. Lucifer Faust shamanic technomagick is a book that teaches you actual magick devices you can make I believe.

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I am reminded of the Internet legend that says if you retain your virginity for 30 years you become a wizard, so yes there is a lot of arcane might in those comments

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      Selection bias. Once you start getting laid, you move to the "Fuckbois" corner of the internet and you're not allowed to come back and talk to the incels anymore.

    • iridaniotter [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      picard

      Phony magicians who have barely even read the Daodejing. It is sexual continence that a cultivator must practice. Other than that, sexual relations are actually a great source of jing.

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        If you don't jack off, the cum backs up into your brain and crystallizes into mana. Not many people know this.

          • iridaniotter [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            It's called 還精補腦 for a reason. Do you know what that means? Returning the jing (that's cum to you) to replenish the brain. Er wait sorry I just re-read what you said. Never mind, your interpretation is odd but is basically correct.