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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Replying to @meta_nomad
I think accelerationists reject free will across the board. Land is clear about this. There is no singular “willing” subject at the end of the day; free will is a false but useful assumption that simplifies communication.
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Replying to @biodysphoria @meta_nomad
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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Replying to @biodysphoria
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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Replying to @meta_nomad
>“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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Replying to @biodysphoria @meta_nomad
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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Replying to @biodysphoria
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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