Max Castle

So it wants hyperracists, slimegirls, etc.

I would say hyperracism is closer to a reaction to this de-calcification. (Slimegirls are rather boring actually.) Think atomized flexibility.

Forces like capitalism exist but they work kind of the way gradient descent does, not really knowing what lies beyond the next hill.

But it 'sees' the general direction it needs to travel.

Only if one assumes that the space it is exploring is not very complex, which is unlikely to be the case.

Lol. Capital is the complexity that goes bump in the night.

What evidence is there that this is the case though (other than the potential AI breakthrough which still hasn't happened)?

Capital is just another name for intelligence. It is already an AI after a sort.

I both agree and disagree here. It certainly is a form of intelligence -- but I believe it is amoeba-like in many aspects. It senses things that are really up-close, but it can't really plan and execute complex moves.

I think you have this the wrong way around. It's goal is survival and self-evolution. Complexity is what it through itself into to come out the other side. And once again into complexity, etc. That it does this blind, in the short term, doesn't mean that it doesn't have a plan.