Even being as charitable as possible, shackle seems reasonable to me. The essay is practically a catalogue of prohibitions: no AI, no markets, no evolution beyond the ape, no leaving the garden, no demons, no transgression of unitary being...
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Replying to @linkolawave @realMaxCastle
Maybe I am pigeonholed. If you want to spell out what kind of "evolution" or "creative power" decelerationism will make possible, I'm all ears. But as far as I can tell, it's defined in opposition to evolution.
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Replying to @linkolawave @realMaxCastle
Capital and nature aren't rigorously separable (original essay touched on this). Genes are already primitive capital, the biosphere is already primitive mechanosphere. Those are pretty big creative avenues. So it's not clear to me what separates you from garden-variety nihilism.
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Replying to @linkolawave @realMaxCastle
Negating "limited distinct phenomena" like environmental destrumction inevitably entails limiting future potentialities to a vast extent (most notably, AI). The trade can only be made to look appealing by romanticizing the eons of slaughter and fornication we call "nature."
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https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=warner+herzog+the+jungle&&view=detail&mid=4FBD4CDEA68E8E8C0CCC4FBD4CDEA68E8E8C0CCC&&FORM=VDRVRV … I don't think I'm going to make any progress trying to convince you, but feel free to have the last word.
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I'm willing to entertain anything you'd like to DM me
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