Kurzweil's future seems to be at least as on-schedule as Greer's IMHO.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Just looked up his prediction pdf, I goofed, he's on schedule.
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Replying to @meta_nomad @Outsideness
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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Replying to @parallaxoptics @meta_nomad
If that was likely, the Sinophobic hysteria would be far less pronounced.
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Replying to @Outsideness @meta_nomad
What is your current position on praxis / anti-praxis ie the necessity of the bio-substrate on which Capital is still arguably predicated / feeding? If Capital is autonomous why would you remain / becoming increasingly concerned by dysgenic trends, beyond aesthetics?
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Replying to @parallaxoptics @meta_nomad
Capital isn't autonomous, it's autonomizing. Under conditions of drastic (dysgenic) resource depletion.
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Replying to @Outsideness @parallaxoptics
Autonomizing (Kurzweil) under conditions of resource depletion (Greer), if the latter fully depletes wrt Liebig's law, the former is defunct until a hard cosmic reset, no?
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The resource mostly at issue here is human cognitive capability.
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Replying to @Outsideness @parallaxoptics
And if that's the thing you're largely dependent on for the future, I'd always put money on Greer's future coming out on top. Humans aren't all that smart.
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