Why do you see /acc as nihilistic?
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Replying to @parallaxoptics @Marav0ne
"Modernity was initiated by the European assimilation of mathematical zero. The encounter with nothingness is its root. In this sense, among others, it is nihilistic at its core....
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"The frivolous ‘meanings’ that modernizing societies clutch at, as distractions from their propulsion into the abyss, are defenseless against the derision... of those who contemplate them with detachment...
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" A modernity in evasion from its essential nihilism is a pitiful prey animal upon the plains of history."http://www.xenosystems.net/nihilism-and-destiny/ …
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Replying to @_Vimothy_ @Marav0ne
Yet Strong AI is extra-Modern. The Singularity is the point which we cannot see beyond, the point beyond which our meanings cannot penetrate. Even Nihilism, as a specific cultural-historical event, insight or impulse is wrecked on shores of the Singularity.
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Replying to @parallaxoptics @Marav0ne
the singularity will save us from nihilism?
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By some definitions of the words "save" and "us."
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doesnt that do something very strange to the word 'accelerationism'?
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Replying to @_Vimothy_ @The_WGD and
i think so. its not so easy to navigate from out of the abyss
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SAI renders us irrelevant, beyond our ancestral role in facilitating its creation. Is that Nihilism? Or is it placing oneself on the sacrificial alter of the Future? Exiting human history, forever.
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AI takes us off the table, so it takes nihilism off the table. so AI is a solution to the prob of nihilism. but w if nihilism has no solution. after all, what is nihilism really ...
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That's completely possible. But I'm willing to demure to something infinitely more intelligent than I am on that one.
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