Anthropol The Future of Human Insecurity (Session 6)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello, welcome to the 6th session of Nick Land's Anthropo. We have some people trailing in, so we're just going to start in. Yeah, so Nick, whenever you're ready, you can start. We're live. Nick? Oh, yeah, sorry. Everyone seems, well, you seem very quiet right now. I'm just wondering whether I've got something with…

• 00:22:59

  And so the Chinese room is intent by Searle to show that even though this machine, in his case, is a translation machine, so it's doing something that is now at the heart of machine learning and translation programs. I think it's become impressively competent to most people. So this machine translates between English…

• 00:47:19

  And that that's the problem. And this is obviously a massive point of contention, too, between these guys and you, is, like, that that's actually what capitalism is doing. It's not, like, a fully-accelerative economic motive. Yeah. I mean, the argument on that level is that there are modes of socialist economic…

• 01:08:31

  Sort of, like, you know... Yes, or any individual cigar-jumping capitalist will do, you know. Is any time that you try to put a human face on a process of emergence that obviously exceeds their own cognitive grasp, and it seems to me like the general, you know, whether you're doing it from the left or the right…

• 01:32:41

  I think that critiquing that sort of high modernist vision on that sort of time scale is entirely ridiculous. It's realistic, but I don't think that's the angle that this sort of dynamic critique is coming from. But something, I mean, we could take all kinds of examples. It's interesting to try and thrash this…

• 01:55:14

  I mean, its mythos is of this sort of high modernist singularism, but like to the extent that there is real universal operations or global operations happening through there, there is this sort of operation. This sort of operation of translation or transit of structures. So, you know, the UN, DCO, the Drug and Crime…

• 02:13:33

  Yeah. Is better spent on doing our particular set of corporate products, projects, you know, our particular research and development priorities, our particular kind of corporate ambitions are a better deployment of these resources than the kind of social welfare trade-off that is being called for in the lab. So…

• 02:36:42

  because we're crazy we're nuts over here in America no, I mean I can definitely see how it could start I mean sort of regular visits to hell dungeons would definitely stop it going soft in its old age I'm going to find myself in the dungeons full of simulations of my antecedents so how's everyone doing now I mean I…