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> Any class that even says a little about the history of NNs will talk about Rosenblatt and the Perceptron. Sure. I think it starts to get more interesting when the influences that…

Yes, Rosenblatt is another good example. I recently looked deeper into the development of the perceptron and it's absolutely fascinating.

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Haven't heard about the universal subspace hypothesis yet, so I appreciate the digression.

As mentioned in the comments, this is essentially Nick Land's vision, which he has been developing for over 30 years. If anyone is interested in exploring this topic in depth, I ha…

Yes. Here's one relevant quote that touches on autonomization and secession: > Most simply, there is the utilitarian order, in which capital establishes itself as the competitively…

Exactly. The source of that quote should be this interview from 2017 [0]. For those interested in exploring Land's main thesis (capitalism is AI), I have a research project on the …

> I'm genuinely curious where this all goes Maybe toward autonomous/sovereign capital with no humans in the loop, not even at the level of (asset) ownership.

Made me think of Mark Fisher's Y2K Positive text: > At the Great Midnight at the century's end, signifying culture will flip over into a number-based counterculture, retroprocessin…

Nietzsche argued that genius is more frequent than we think, but that something else is missing for its realization ("the five hundred hands" ): > In the realm of genius, might the…

The interesting thing is that, for the "Father of Accelerationism" (Nick Land), AI Doomerism (doom for humans, at least for human identity) and Accelerationism (which for Land is j…

Expected outcome. Nick Land and the CCRU have explored how capitalism operationalizes science fiction (distilled in the concept of Hyperstition ). Viewed through this lens, prices …

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The real transition would be from human-owned capital to self-owned capital. You are right that current capabilities and autonomy don't allow for that yet.

If you're only interested in his ideas, The Swerve summarizes them on pages 185-199 (1st edition).

Agreed. Even assuming that most people aren't deeply familiar with his philosophy, it's still nice for a culture to have something like a celebrity philosopher.

Absolutely. One of my favorite books about the power of books is The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011) by Stephen Greenblatt. It tells the story of the rediscovery of Lucr…

German book culture is great! When he was in Karlsruhe to profile Peter Sloterdijk, The New Yorker reporter Thomas Meaney seemed surprised by it: "Over the summer, ordinary Germans…

This reminds me of Peter Sloterdijk describing books as "bewusstseinserweiternde Drogen" (mind-expanding drugs) and "Waffen" (weapons) in his working library. [0] [0] https://youtu…

> It just needs one player to do it, so everyone has to be able to do it. I'd love to hear a different scenario. Other players just need to assume that one player might do it in th…

I think assuming human agency (building technocapitalism, correcting course) or the possibility to escape capitalism and its consequences (in bunkers), underestimates what capitali…

Mark Fisher is excellent. It will be interesting to see if his claim that the human face is required for capitalism's functioning will hold (does not look like it).