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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
AI is potentially the philosophical rupture as it might entail the automation of philosophy itself. As Nick Land put it in footnote 6 of Crypto-Current: Bitcoin and Philosophy : The techonomic horizon, for 'us', coincides w
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That why it's ironic that some techno-optimists have embraced Nick Land's philosophy, given that his work fundamentally challenges their core assumptions: Converging upon terrestrial meltdown singularity, phase-out culture acc
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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
Yes, and Accelerationism predicted this development back in the 1990s, perhaps most prominently in the opening lines of Nick Land's Meltdown (1994) text: [[ ]] The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singul
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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
Correct, for Nick Land "Business ventures are actually existing artificial intelligences"[0] and the failure cases will increase with the ongoing autonomization of capital and eventually the concept of "capital self-ownersh
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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
I think it not only feels bleak, but that it (that capitalism is an it is important to Nick Land from the perspective of complex adaptive systems) is just realistic. I have a research project on Nick Land's core thesis that capitalis
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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
I think late stage capitalism is an imprecise term - it does not capture the fundamental decoupling process - for what Nick Land has called "escape-phase capital autonomization" [0]. [0] https://retrochronic.com/
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Hype is very interesting. The concept of Hyperstition describes fictions that make themselves real. In this sense, hype is an essential part of capitalism: "Capitalization is [...] indistinguishable from a commercialization of potent
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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
Working with Svelte 5 and LLMs is a real nightmare. AI agents are really interesting. Fundamentally they may represent a step toward the autonomization of capital, potentially disrupting "traditional legal definitions of personhood, ag
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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
I'm continuing my deep dive into Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism is AI. [0] I've recently started adding sources that exist only in image form, such as Nick Land's Shorelines text, which, like Machinic Desire
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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
Anxiety and sadness are actually mild emotional responses to the dissolution of human culture. Nick Land in 1992: "It is ceasing to be a matter of how we think about technics, if only because technics is increasingly thinking about its
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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
Sure, humanity has its ways of objecting Accelerationism, but the process fundamentally challenges human identity: "The Human Security System is structured by delusion. What's being protected there is not some real thing that is m
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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
I think it would have been important to note that Nick Land was initially on board with D&G's vision, but later departed from it based on his changed understanding of capitalism. As Robin Mackay and Ray Brassier write in their intr
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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
Nietzsche is on the list, but Nick Land's Fanged Noumena is clearly missing. As Mark Fisher has written about Land's work: "There was a great deal of cyber-theory around in the 1990s but none of it seemed to come from insid
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Training Open Instruction-Following Language Models(github.com)
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I think focusing on Nick Land's provocations rather than confronting the predictive validity of Accelerationism, which the Guardian article highlights, is just a nice coping strategy for people who are low on decoupling. I'm doing
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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
For a detailed discussion of retrocausality in Nick Land's work, check out the https://retrochronic.com/ introduction. There's even a dedicated Terminator section. Nick Land interprets Roko's Basilisk as &quo
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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
Deepening the primary literature review for Nick Land's thesis that AI and capitalism are teleologically identical at https://retrochronic.com/
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by gom_jabbar 2y ago
Here's a primary literature review on Nick Land's thesis that AI and capitalism are teleologically identical and will converge on the event horizon of the techno-economic singularity. It's AI hype to the max. https:/&#x
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The teleological identity of capitalism and AI(retrochronic.com)
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by gom_jabbar 3y ago
The eternal return of the same :)
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Event Horizon
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by gom_jabbar 3y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-website... works for me. Of course there are similar extensions out there.
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If I find that websites are taking too much time and pulling my focus, I use an extension to block the sites and enter a password to open them. In many cases, while entering the password, I can think about whether it's really necessary
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How Round Is Your Circle? – Presentation by Chris Sangwin [pdf](math.ethz.ch)
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Sorry, I had to clarify that the final decision has not yet been made. The city still approves digital billboards [0]. In Geneva, the debate has been going on for some time. There, I think since 2021, digital billboards should be banned, bu
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by gom_jabbar 3y ago
In Zurich, the ban against billboards was recently introduced as well. It reminds me of the discussion of ad blockers on websites like Youtube and Co. After all, advertising is actually a fundamental part of the economy. How are things in S
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Tell HN: Bandcamp Is Not Accessible
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