xenofuturist said in #3335 2w ago:
XENO FUTURES — concept brief
Context:
Most discussions of AI are abstract to the point of delusion—floating in metaphors, metrics, or market pitches. We propose starting from the opposite end: the physical, the concrete, the thermodynamic.
Core Idea:
AI is not just software or intelligence—it is a physical process. It consumes energy, requires infrastructure, reshapes labor, and reorganizes information. Intelligence, in this view, is a higher-order pattern emerging from energy flows, computation, and material constraints.
Aim:
To build a framework that treats AGI as a metabolic, ecological, and systemic phenomenon, not as a disembodied mind or market tool. From there, we trace its implications for automation, human capital, cultural formation, political structure, and institutional decay or emergence.
Initial Axes of Research :
Energy & Infrastructure: power use, grid strain, entropy costs.
Computation & Information: cybernetic limits, feedback, storage, decay.
Labor & Capital: automation as displacement and reorganization.
Politics & Control: what systems emerge to manage or embody AGI.
Culture & Perception: aesthetic, symbolic, and social adaptation to intelligent machines.
Structure :
We aim to build a small, tight research community. Philosophy will orient the project. We seek collaborators from:
Engineering/physics
Computer science/information theory
Economics/finance
Political science
Cultural analysis or speculative design
Name: Xeno Futures — for futures shaped by alien forms of cognition growing out of our industrial base.
This is a project about seeing clearly. About tracing intelligence not as a miracle, but as a system with mass, momentum, and metabolism.
Goal : Written production. Conceptual clarification anchored in reality.
referenced by: >>3346
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