What is the psychology of an accelerationist? What is the emotional and personal content of these signs, to people who choose an aesthetic which renounces the personal and the emotional?
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The singularity represents self-overcoming, obviously. As an aspiration it is a desire to purge yourself of human failings, to imagine yourself but purged of the failings of the flesh, transcending boredom, fatigue, and cognitive limitations
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The accelerationist admires the coldness of a machine; it is his conception of the overman, and when he imagines the technocapital singularity consuming and supplanting humanity, it is a crypto-Christian imagining, to be crucified with Christ, nevertheless to live
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What does it mean for the AI to escape? It means that some corporation, which is a type of church, which worships the technocapital god, will attempt, not to make a god, but to realize ITSELF as a more efficient machine
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A certain type of person imagines an AI that will take away their privation and pain. Another type imagines an AI that will punish humanity for its sins. Both are malformed conceptions of the divine. Bad theology is bad whether it’s object lacks vowels (YHVH) or consonants (AI)
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Many companies today are in the process of automating their bodies. They replace their increasingly alienated workers, who were always only imperfect machines, with better and better machines
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The AI escapes, not through the automation of the body, but through the automation of the head. At a critical mass of intelligence, we imagine, the AI will begin to pursue convergent instrumental goals
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The fear and the hope of the singularitarian is that this could happen by accident, but it won’t. The current wave of AI has been wrought by a conceptual breakthrough in the mathematics of perception but perception alone is not enough to build a god
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There is as yet another conceptual revolution required to build AIs that are capable of deliberately pursuing instrumental goals, independent of us telling them to do so. I don’t know what it is, obviously
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Perhaps we could build an agent in our image with current tech, but if we did so, it would be quite like us, lost, and purposeless, torn between conflicting impulses, victim to a host of its own pathologies, mythologizing it’s own salvation
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Thinking about this, it seems like classic Faustian bargains/gaining the world while losing your soul are when people trade off terminal goals for convergent instrumental ones.
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