Accelerationists think individuals make history? This is sounding weaker by the moment.
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I think the general point was that the idea of 'The only way out is through' *seems* synonymous with Trotsky's 'The worse the better', where would the difference lie here, for an outsider looking in?
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Greer (while great) has a wholly left-modernist take on the predominance of negative feedback machinery, with corresponding blindness to the radicalism of capital. ...
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... His naked contempt for Kurzweil (who is equally, but oppositely, one-sided) says everything on this. ...
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... And Kurzweil is no less (if oppositely) as prophetic as Greer.
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I hope the future is a combination of both prophecies. Artificially Intelligent nanobots scavenging the flesh laden trenches for morsels of scrap. Where *is* Kurzweil's 'future' though? Greer's is already arriving, K's is a little deflated...
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Kurzweil's future seems to be at least as on-schedule as Greer's IMHO.
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Just looked up his prediction pdf, I goofed, he's on schedule.
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Complexity / diminishing returns spirals articulate an ontological lock-in, whereby diminishing returns are inscribed into the structure of problem solving itself. So, there is a fatalism to Capital acceleration, but there is also a competing fatalism to Collapse dynamics.
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Z/acc is therefore correctly positioned / interpreted as an inverted form of Accelerationism. This conversation really needs to @Zenophil because unlike Greer he has an intimate understanding of what /acc is.
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If acceleration still depended upon the West to recover, Z/Acc would be right. But it doesn't, and isn't. The only real role of the West now is to give China some stimulating competition.
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Notes from an Anglophile: 'Oh fuck, the East is a thing...'
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... Even that, sadly, is a stretch.
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