"The only real problem is that we're not doing techno-capitalism nearly hard enough. We should stop funding social programs, giving to charity, or doing anything except funneling money to AI research not because it will help people, but because our time as humans has ended and our true role as only the midwives to real intelligence has been revealed."
It's really ghoulish shit, even for Silicon Valley.
Yeah, it's a death cult in the extreme forms. In less extreme forms there's people who believe in doing it so that capitalism will move "to completion", collapse, and immanentize either communism (somehow without organisation) or the confused mishmash of libertarian blockchain utopia where hyper-capitalist grifts somehow come together to produce results identical to communism but with a thousand extra steps that help them to avoid thinking about other people or liking socialism.
Now every 19 year old who's read the Notes on Automation and too much Ken MacLeod/Ian Banks has had these thoughts but most immediately follow up with "Sure, accelerate socialism or barbarism, cool, can't make an Omelas without breaking eggs. But how do we avoid the barbarism option?" and immediately have an epiphany about the Dictatorship of the Proletariat or at least a strong vanguard.
But these dumbasses have been prevented from exploring Marx by a certain trashcan, and at best have read Piketty and cannot compass points left. And so they break. Or go fash.
A lot of the hand wringing is being led by "effective acceleration" people and Rationalists, who are 100% indistinguishable from cultists.
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"The only real problem is that we're not doing techno-capitalism nearly hard enough. We should stop funding social programs, giving to charity, or doing anything except funneling money to AI research not because it will help people, but because our time as humans has ended and our true role as only the midwives to real intelligence has been revealed."
It's really ghoulish shit, even for Silicon Valley.
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Yeah, it's a death cult in the extreme forms. In less extreme forms there's people who believe in doing it so that capitalism will move "to completion", collapse, and immanentize either communism (somehow without organisation) or the confused mishmash of libertarian blockchain utopia where hyper-capitalist grifts somehow come together to produce results identical to communism but with a thousand extra steps that help them to avoid thinking about other people or liking socialism.
Now every 19 year old who's read the Notes on Automation and too much Ken MacLeod/Ian Banks has had these thoughts but most immediately follow up with "Sure, accelerate socialism or barbarism, cool, can't make an Omelas without breaking eggs. But how do we avoid the barbarism option?" and immediately have an epiphany about the Dictatorship of the Proletariat or at least a strong vanguard.
But these dumbasses have been prevented from exploring Marx by a certain trashcan, and at best have read Piketty and cannot compass points left. And so they break. Or go fash.