Treading Carefully 0.1: Continuing from yesterday's thread on the definitions of the Acc strands, it was - roughly - agreed that the contention between the 2 currently deadlocked camps (U/Acc & R/Acc) is in actuality a question of free will -
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> I think accelerationists reject free will across the board. One could put forth that it doesn't matter either way, we're not going to solve the problem of free will. So let's attend to our own camp's guidance.
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‘There is no singular “willing” subject’ is the key here I think.
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Multiple wills taking 'different' willed routes converging on acceleration. U would immanentize all routes into the process, as it is the process. And R would allow for each singular will to be its own 'helmsman' (see Serres).
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I want to insist on r/acc not believing in “singular wills” in the final case. But maybe r/acc finds “singular wills” to be more useful as a lying abstraction; more emphasis on ““”praxis””” than “just let capital do its work and don’t interfere”
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Biographically speaking: I’m going to try hard to marry young and have a lot of kids to combat IQ shredder effect. Maybe U/acc thinks this is naive, idealistic, or autistic.
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it's just part of the process.
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Well said
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Thinking descriptively instead of theoretically: —r/acc is on avg ruder and meaner —u/acc is more comfortable interacting w/ leftists, even if they themselves aren’t necessarily leftists —r/acc is more hostile to LGBT gender politics
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As I stated at the bottom of the post you initially replied to, R contains the idea that one can condition and control their reality, and so is attractive to Rx (Reactionaries)...who are rude and mean, yes.
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>“the idea that one can condition and control their reality” How can anyone deny that this is true, at least to a small extent? Outcomes may be overdetermined by systems, but a singular intelligent human can affect things at the margins. You might e.g. become an AI researcher.
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If we are without a doubt wholly impotent to condition our reality even at the margin, we literally might as well just kill ourselves and stop wasting resources.
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Hence why you need to clean your room. This is where revering determinism gets you, nihil.
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Yes, I put up with the lie of free will because it’s useful for taskmaking. And also for talking to you (using the pronoun “I”). But it’s only an illusion; my birth & environment completely overdetermine every action I’ll ever take.
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