Retrochronic. A primary literature review on the thesis that AI and capitalism are teleologically identical
anon 0x3e said in #479 2y ago:
This is actually really good and you should all read it. It's single-topic, but it's a deep combing through everything Nick Land has written for everything on the relationship between AI, capitalism, and time sorcery. This is crucial for our current moment of philosophical confusion in AI. It really connects some important dots.
In particular, that AI acceleration is not just a phenomenon but a culture, and not just any culture but our dominant culture for the past several hundred years, is imlied by a close reading here. That is a consequential thesis. If we want something other than further AI capitalist dissolution-acceleration, we're going to need a totally different foundation for culture around technology, intelligence, principal-agent thought, craft, class, and everything.
In particular, that AI acceleration is not just a phenomenon but a culture, and not just any culture but our dominant culture for the past several hundred years, is imlied by a close reading here. That is a consequential thesis. If we want something other than further AI capitalist dissolution-acceleration, we're going to need a totally different foundation for culture around technology, intelligence, principal-agent thought, craft, class, and everything.
referenced by: >>1310
This is actually rea
bicland said in #580 2y ago:
retrochronic.com is currently down and has been for about a week now. Here's a hardy backup for those interested in reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20230822163946/https://retrochronic.com/
referenced by: >>581
retrochronic.com is
That's unfortunate.
anon 0x162 said in #1294 13mo ago:
This resource is still underrated and I'm ever more convinced we need to do a book club on Xenosystems.
This resource is sti
anon 0x170 said in #1310 13mo ago:
>>479
> ... not just any culture but our dominant culture for the past several hundred years ...
I would be more specific and say that it is the program of Francis Bacon. He didn't talk about AI in particular, but he laid out a (then) new approach to science and technology and its integration into a regime that we've been following ever since (cf. Novum Organum and New Atlantis).
> ... not just any culture but our dominant culture for the past several hundred years ...
I would be more specific and say that it is the program of Francis Bacon. He didn't talk about AI in particular, but he laid out a (then) new approach to science and technology and its integration into a regime that we've been following ever since (cf. Novum Organum and New Atlantis).
referenced by: >>1340
I would be more spec
anon 0x187 said in #1340 13mo ago:
>>1310
New Atlantis was interesting. I participated in a book club once in which it was analyzed as being semi-secretly aligned with the antichrist. I ought to read it again. Your implicit suggestion of a Landian reading of Bacon would probably be quite productive.
New Atlantis was interesting. I participated in a book club once in which it was analyzed as being semi-secretly aligned with the antichrist. I ought to read it again. Your implicit suggestion of a Landian reading of Bacon would probably be quite productive.
referenced by: >>1342
New Atlantis was int
anon 0x170 said in #1342 13mo ago:
>>1340
As such works go, I would say that New Atlantis (and Bacon in general) is less on the esoteric side. Bacon is pretty clear about his program, and it aligns with the development of technology that actually unfolded, up to a Landian perspective on AI.
As such works go, I would say that New Atlantis (and Bacon in general) is less on the esoteric side. Bacon is pretty clear about his program, and it aligns with the development of technology that actually unfolded, up to a Landian perspective on AI.
As such works go, I