Jean Baudrillard's 'The Transparency of Evil'

[handyalley]

One of the better vids on baudrillard on yt.

[JAMAICADOCK]

The negation of mystery, the final mapping of the territory - the general malaise Baudrillard speaks of, really leads to the colonization of space as the next stage in the human story.
Either that or the apocalypse and return to hunter gathering.

The present exhausted stasis cannot drag on forever.

[RickDelmonico]

The cartographers became so obsessed with representation that they built a map of great precision, not realizing that representation and reality must have a distinction. Over many generations they became so good at representation that the map covered the entire territory. In time all distinctions were lost until the map became the territory. Representation and reality blended into a boundless hyper-real where few distinctions could be made and no boundary located. The creature's creation became the territory of sensory distinctions in the precession of the hyper-real. Lucidity was lost in a sea of meaning where the sensual sought out pleasure for pleasure's sake. All activity concerned itself with increasing levels of illusion, the illusion of pleasure. All activity blurred into one great orgasmic rush of pleasure where distinction disappeared.

The scientist hasn't yet realized that the measurement has become more real than the thing being measured.

The idea of sophistication in a system is, the various parts of the system are self correcting. Any system is a flow towards a goal with the flow having some degree of turbulence. If the system has a mechanism to explore state space, we would expect the back flow of information to optimize the outcome. The better this is managed the more the sophistication.

[rpglife]

One issue that I had with Baudrillard in this work is his seemingly reactionary takes on the liberation movement of the 1960’s. I haven’t read any of his other works, so it is definitely possible that I misunderstood what he was saying due to my lack of understanding of his previous works. As I read the Transparency of Evil, Baudrillard reactionarily seemed to attack minorities and their movements to resist and overturn oppression.

[RickDelmonico]

Stefan Molyneux is not a philosopher.
The creature is not tuned to survival, it is tuned to the value in the environment.
The woman is tuned not as a singular creature but as a composite mother/infant.
Perception is the mapping of the material world onto the physical structure of the creature. The map becomes part of the material world.

[infiniteexponent]

Inspired by your work to make some videos of my own on JB and others... if you ever want to connect or work together I'd love to get in touch

[RickDelmonico]

Information is a difference that can make a difference, truth is information that doesn't change and self referential noise is a difference that doesn't make a difference. No matter how much information we use to describe a tree, it will always be incomplete. Levels of description.
The only place self referential noise makes a difference is at the knife's edge between subcritical and supercritical boundary conditions in a system (dithering) (Buridan's donkey). Can dimensions undergo a phase transition?

[Swishead]

What motivates you to do these videos? I find them really interesting and like your voice :P But it must take some effort to keep up the output no?

[dominichills]

I enjoyed your aside on imperfect ai..
If this is in relation to banality of evil then that should not be understood as standing everywhere. it was in relation to Eichman being a self declared kantian applying a system of thought, that he can justify as kantian and this overrules the emotional response that he claims to naturally feel as pro zionist, yiddish speaking lover of jewish culture. banality is the replacement of passion with a system of thought.
In her book on totalitarianism she offers up another version in which the only escape from the total oblivion created by a perfect system.. which seems to me very close to Baudrillards idea of evil as the perfect or complete unnuenced undoubting system.. is the creation of more humans.. new children filled with creativity and spontaneity and all the things a totalitarian state seeks to absorb and suppress.
The problem you have with his reductive position on binary may be a hegel thing.. and I would think as well as the two opposites forming each other the imbetween area also forms both parts of the binary, so not so reductive when thought of in this way

[javierv]

No es nada extraño que estos intelectuales postmodernos tuvieran una vida corta, Deleuze dijo que se marchaba pero en vez de salir por la puerta salió por el balcón.... Es imposible vivir mucho tiempo después de decir tal cantidad de estupideces y majaderías. Que por lo visto siguen deleitando a algunos burguesitos actuales hastiados de tanta abundancia y comodidades.