Anthropol The Future of Human Insecurity (Session 1)

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• 00:00:02

  All right, so welcome to the first session of Nick Land's Anthropole, Future New Human Security. This is also the first seminar of our second season at the new center, so thank you all for being here. Looking very much forward to this event. Moat, so let me, could not be here today. He's going to be taking my place…

• 00:21:16

  Even if you leave aside, which you can't belong, the question about dissimulation, i.e. something that was going to explode would be potentially, strategically motivated to seem as if it wasn't the sort of thing that could explode. Or if it was going to explode, if it was able to garner the capacities at an early…

• 00:41:48

  And I think that there's a piece of work that I'd really like to do, and I'm sort of slowly assembling on the sidelines, that I think is sort of very suggestive, which is to put along side each other Ray Kurzweil and a guy, I don't know whether you've heard of called John Michael Greer, who is actually the Arch Druid…

• 01:02:05

  Now, that's obviously, putting it like that, I'm sort of, I'm putting certain constraints on what we're going to say human is. And you can go the other way. You can say, look, something is human if it's come out of our cultural and civilizational lineage. You know, so after we've shed, we no longer use DNA…

• 01:22:06

  So imagine what a bank is thinking when it's kind of bringing this kind of technology inside. But, you know, it has to compete, other people might do it, this is the latest thing, you know, it's a latest. It's not just because it's fashionable, but because it has a sort of level of functionality that is inescapable…

• 01:39:38

  You could do them in a very Kurtzweil way, and you could say, look, the corporate... The corporation is a very limited artificial intelligence now, but look at the exponential curve that it's on. Track that forward. This takes us back to this thing like Google. I do think we have crossed a certain threshold where…

• 02:03:57

  that's got exoticly resulted? Right. Are you saying that scientific socialism is committed to the protection of human interest against strategically competent capital? Is that what you're Yeah, I I mean, this is as I say, the sort of surreptitious political economy agenda that I sort of said I'd try and keep locked…

• 02:33:38

  actually looks interesting doesn't it Jarius Grove and Nicole Grove are doing a seminar also on security and how organization stays in this sort of beta phase constantly prototyping ok maybe we've got to sort of any last declarations moment I'd like to say really truly appreciate you guys I think you've been fantastic…