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by gom_jabbar 3mo ago
> Any class that even says a little about the history of NNs will talk about Rosenblatt and the Perceptron. Sure. I think it starts to get more interesting when the influences that Rosenblatt explicitly cites in his seminal Perceptron pa
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by gom_jabbar 3mo ago
Yes, Rosenblatt is another good example. I recently looked deeper into the development of the perceptron and it's absolutely fascinating.
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by gom_jabbar 4mo ago
Haven't heard about the universal subspace hypothesis yet, so I appreciate the digression.
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by gom_jabbar 4mo ago
As mentioned in the comments, this is essentially Nick Land's vision, which he has been developing for over 30 years. If anyone is interested in exploring this topic in depth, I have a research project on it: https://retroch
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by gom_jabbar 4mo ago
Yes. Here's one relevant quote that touches on autonomization and secession: > Most simply, there is the utilitarian order, in which capital establishes itself as the competitively-superior solution to prior purposes (production of
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by gom_jabbar 4mo ago
Exactly. The source of that quote should be this interview from 2017 [0]. For those interested in exploring Land's main thesis (capitalism is AI), I have a research project on the topic [1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/
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by gom_jabbar 4mo ago
> I'm genuinely curious where this all goes Maybe toward autonomous/sovereign capital with no humans in the loop, not even at the level of (asset) ownership.
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by gom_jabbar 5mo ago
Made me think of Mark Fisher's Y2K Positive text: > At the Great Midnight at the century's end, signifying culture will flip over into a number-based counterculture, retroprocessing the last 100 years. Whether global disaster
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by gom_jabbar 5mo ago
Nietzsche argued that genius is more frequent than we think, but that something else is missing for its realization ("the five hundred hands" ): > In the realm of genius, might the “Raphael without hands” — the term understo
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by gom_jabbar 5mo ago
The interesting thing is that, for the "Father of Accelerationism" (Nick Land), AI Doomerism (doom for humans, at least for human identity) and Accelerationism (which for Land is just another label for capitalism: 'The label
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by gom_jabbar 5mo ago
Expected outcome. Nick Land and the CCRU have explored how capitalism operationalizes science fiction (distilled in the concept of Hyperstition ). Viewed through this lens, prices encode "distributed SF narratives." [0] [0] Nick
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by gom_jabbar 6mo ago
Related: 0rphan Drift Archive https://www.orphandriftarchive.com
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by gom_jabbar 6mo ago
The real transition would be from human-owned capital to self-owned capital. You are right that current capabilities and autonomy don't allow for that yet.
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by gom_jabbar 6mo ago
If you're only interested in his ideas, The Swerve summarizes them on pages 185-199 (1st edition).
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by gom_jabbar 6mo ago
Agreed. Even assuming that most people aren't deeply familiar with his philosophy, it's still nice for a culture to have something like a celebrity philosopher.
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by gom_jabbar 6mo ago
Absolutely. One of my favorite books about the power of books is The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011) by Stephen Greenblatt. It tells the story of the rediscovery of Lucretius's poem De rerum natura (On the Nature of Thin
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by gom_jabbar 6mo ago
German book culture is great! When he was in Karlsruhe to profile Peter Sloterdijk, The New Yorker reporter Thomas Meaney seemed surprised by it: "Over the summer, ordinary Germans who spotted his [Peter Sloterdijk] books in my hands e
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by gom_jabbar 6mo ago
This reminds me of Peter Sloterdijk describing books as "bewusstseinserweiternde Drogen" (mind-expanding drugs) and "Waffen" (weapons) in his working library. [0] [0] https://youtu.be/Wn5EgkuQb5U?t=293 (
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by gom_jabbar 7mo ago
> It just needs one player to do it, so everyone has to be able to do it. I'd love to hear a different scenario. Other players just need to assume that one player might do it in the future. This virtual future scenario has a causa
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by gom_jabbar 7mo ago
I think assuming human agency (building technocapitalism, correcting course) or the possibility to escape capitalism and its consequences (in bunkers), underestimates what capitalism is.
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by gom_jabbar 7mo ago
Mark Fisher is excellent. It will be interesting to see if his claim that the human face is required for capitalism's functioning will hold (does not look like it).
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by gom_jabbar 7mo ago
Exactly. He recently said the following in an interview: "AI safety and anti-capitalism [...] are at least strongly analogous, if not exactly the same thing." [0] [0] Nick Land (2026). A Conversation with Nick Land (Part 2) by V
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by gom_jabbar 7mo ago
For those who are interested, I'm researching Land's main thesis that capitalism is AI: https://retrochronic.com
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by gom_jabbar 7mo ago
Yes, I was just about to bring this up as well. One could argue that they were simply too early. It will be interesting to watch things like ERC-8004.
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by gom_jabbar 7mo ago
Yes, probably. In a Heraclitean cyberspace, concealment and secrecy are essential. The second season of the New Creative Era podcast is about online Dark Forests . [0] They even have a Dark Forest OS. [1] [0] https://blog.meta
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by gom_jabbar 7mo ago
Nick Land is arguably the most influential philosopher in SV (at least over the past 3 years). Marc Andreessen's acknowledgment of Land in his 2023 The Techno-Optimist Manifesto has brought his underground influence more to the surfa
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by gom_jabbar 7mo ago
Great article. Have read it multiple times over the years. The predictive power of Accelerationism is perhaps even more evident now than it was in 2017.
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by gom_jabbar 7mo ago
I have always been fascinated by this interpretation (that capitalism is (retrochronic) AI), which is why I have created a research project on it: https://retrochronic.com
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by gom_jabbar 7mo ago
Yes, this is one of the main references for Nick Land's thesis that capitalism is (retrochronic) AI. The one you cited is from Machinic Desire (1993). Interestingly, it also appears in the relatively unknown text Shorelines from th
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by gom_jabbar 7mo ago
Instrumental convergence is final convergence (w/o final goal divergence following instrumental convergence as assumed by Bostrom).

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