Why would anyone dissolve themselves? I was watching Altered Carbon the other day and found the whole premise unrealistic. A new sleeve/body would probably cost as much as a house, require mountains of paperwork, visits to a lawyer, etc
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See also Kojeve’s text on Hegel — it is the best read on desire, even for those who hate Hegel.
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Desire is the actual true currency that drives capitalism. Once ultimate wireheading can be satisfied *in silico,* it *will* be satisfied (see everything that can be hacked will be thesis), desire ceases to exist and with it capitalism.
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I agree that wireheaded silicon insects probably don’t have much moral value - they’ve essentially removed all their preferences, after all.
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I agree, but my further thesis (contra Land) is that once desire is permanently satisfied after upgrading, capitalism stops, hence entire machinery stops, hence the only thing that survives are biological bodies.
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People don't want to be wire heads. They want the real thing. Replicant supermodel girlfriends are the future.
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Capitalism requires 1) scarcity, 2) desire. Both can be hacked/witeheaded *in silico,* so talking about a post-human capitalist borg is absurd.
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