anon_wadu

in thread "Accelerationism":

I’ve read and re-read xenosystems and i find Nick Land’s thought quite compelling in drawing out the implications of Nietzschean and Darwinian ideas especially around AI and attached metaphysical matters. Some of the later stuff that people have tried ... 5mo ago

I’ve read and re-rea

Retrochronic is great. Bravo to whoever put that resource together. Yes intelligence as a natural phenomenon is THE central object of study here. Evolution as intelligence, capitalism as intelligence, life as intelligence, consciousness as intelligence, th... 5mo ago

Retrochronic is grea

I dont know. Information theory maybe. But you might need a physical information theory that is about configurations lining up with circumstances. Then also the reverse thermodynamic causality in life. I am not mathy enough to do this. 5mo ago

I dont know. Informa

Can you post links to this superior complexity theory? Everything I've seen from that field is like pop-science “woah man it sometimes does weird things”, though I admit I haven't looked too hard.... 5mo ago

Can you post links t

What is efficiency? Efficiency a ratio of actual to ideal effect given resources consumed. What resources? What effect? What's the efficiency of a rock? 5mo ago

What is efficiency?

This feels like a failed definition. A lighting bolt or forest fire is extremely efficient at burning up a lot of potential, not at all intelligent. This whole “life is about increasing entropy” thing is wrong for this reason. Life is an epiphenomenon ... 5mo ago

This feels like a fa

I'm still not convinced. Yes decreasing local entropy is something life does, but any kind of engine does that or can do it (for example, charging a battery). You can say only life builds such engines, which is true, but it still feels like a distraction. ... 5mo ago

I'm still not convin