Petscop's Spiritual Sequel: 3D Workers Island (FULL ANALYSIS)
3D Workers Island is a short horror story about a screensaver: https://mryes.itch.io/3dwiscr
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0:00 - Introduction
15:50 - Peeling Back the Layers
20:15 - The Personal-Psychological Lens
26:20 - 3DWI as Metacommentary
46:30 - AI and Consciousness
1:08:20 - The Present State of Things
1:20:58 - The Specter of Hauntology
1:33:50 - Is Worker Degeneration a Class Condition?
1:47:18 - The Degenerated Workers' State
2:10:07 - The Noise of the System
2:18:58 - Conclusion
References
“Death of the Author” by Roland Barthes
https://web.archive.org/web/202004191...
“Good Sky” by Tony Domenico
• Good Sky
“Me and Miss Mandible” by Donald Barthelme
https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/longcon...
"Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness" by David J. Chalmers https://consc.net/papers/facing.pdf
"Stochastic Parrots: A Novel Look at Large Language Models and Their Limitations" by Muhammad Saad Uddin
https://towardsai.net/p/machine-learn...
Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00663
Begging the Question by Kane B
• Begging the Question
“The Guignol in History” by Amadeo Bordiga
https://libcom.org/article/guignol-hi...
“A Cyborg Manifesto” by Donna Haraway
https://archive.org/details/1985.-har...
Beginning to Consider Computation as a More General Phenomenon, With Two Examples (Part 1 Chapter 6)
• Beginning to Consider Computation as a Mor...
Encapsulation in Object Oriented Programming (OOPS) https://www.enjoyalgorithms.com/blog/...
“The Revolution Betrayed” by Leon Trotsky
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trot...
Paul Mattick Collection
https://files.libcom.org/files/paul-m...
Photo Credits:
Playersprite in thumbnail by “Newmaker2000”
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David Chalmers in 2021: DannyGolcman
An animated gif of MRI images of a human head: Dwayne Reed
Argument Terminology: Patrick J. Hurley, “A Concise Introduction to Logic, 12th Ed.”
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Attention Heads Illustration: DancingPhilosopher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_l...
MRI Brain T2 Axial: 511KeV
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The Apple II Computer on display at the Museum Of The Moving Image in New York City: Marcin Wichary
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A hand holding a Nexus 6 with the Wikipedia mobile homepage displayed, in an office setting: Sage Ross
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wi...
Example of Algorithm - GCD through successive subtractions: Arthur Baelde
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Canada Geese flying in a V-shaped formation. Madison, Wisconsin: John Benson
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Skull and brain normal human diagram:
Patrick J. Lynch; illustrator; C. Carl Jaffe; MD; cardiologist
Yale University Center for Advanced Instructional Media
Medical Illustrations by Patrick Lynch, generated for multimedia teaching projects by the Yale University School of Medicine, Center for Advanced Instructional Media, 1987-2000.
Patrick J. Lynch, http://patricklynch.net Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License 2006; no usage restrictions except please preserve our creative credits: Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator; C. Carl Jaffe, MD, cardiologist. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Monte Bianco dalla val ferret: Giannico
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Jean Baudrillard in 2005: Ayaleila
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Open systems diagram: By Krauss - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Rostov-on-Don. © Vyacheslav Argenberg / http://www.vascoplanet.com/
Orthographic projection: Ssolbergj
Diesel locomotive TG16-064. Kaluga region, Lyudinovskiy locomotive building factory
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Photo of Christopher Hitchens: ensceptico
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Money exhibition: Paul Hudson
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