Nick Land openly states that in the war between Skynet/AI/Capitalism and the human race, he is against the "monkeys" In case you haven't noticed, YOU are one of "the monkeys" that Land is against Land is you enemy, and he even says so out loud
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The only situation under which AI+capitalism make sense is if biological humans are using the two as a substrate. So maybe Land wants us to speed up the switch to that substrate.
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There is a meme-vs-gene dichotomy at play. I happen to think humanity is genes over memes, but machine transhumanists think humans are memes over genes. A full “upgrade” will erase us biologically, which means I (a biological being) have no reason to care about my descendants.
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I doubt humanity could ever be erased. All it would take is a few people choosing to remain human
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This will be resolved using cults. There will be a cult of “primitivists” and a cult of “machine accelerationists.” The latter will dissolve into silicon goo. The former will have some chance of surviving.
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Scarcity is one of the things that give us dignity. Ten thousand electronic copies of Einstein devalue Einstein as a being. Though artificial scarcity could be ensured through some kind of blockchain-like tech.
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Ridiculous. Upgrade everything.
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>muh noble savage
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