Anthropol The Future of Human Insecurity (Session 8)

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• 00:00:00

  Alright, hello and welcome to the final session of Anthropole, Future of Human Security with Nick Land. I was just saying it's a very sweet day as being the last session of this really intense but awesome course. I've been glad to be here. And yeah, so Nick. Okay, great. Thanks, Tim. I'm noticing I don't have a... I…

• 00:26:38

  Like, he goes from this, so I think that in some ways, they were talking past each other, like Hansen was talking about this, Yudowski's talking about this, you know, local group of programmers that ends up creating an AI that does an intelligence explosion. And from there, Yudowski's going on about a whole bunch…

• 00:52:11

  We want to create a singleton to sort of fight the caliphate, maybe. Yeah, I'm assuming that the caliphate is not able to be paranoid in the same way, in the sense that it's so theological and logically dense that it thinks that, you know, providence is in the hands of a divine power and therefore the notion, I would…

• 01:26:23

  Right. I mean, even if you're talking about a singleton, you say, like, another, but already, you don't have a singleton, I guess. I mean, if there is others, and you're looking at a singleton model, then what are those others sort of... It's not other singletons, I'm not quite sure. Already, you've got this idea…

• 01:46:47

  So, it's this thing, you know, how do we conceptually create a consistent vector that this thing, a consistent trajectory that this thing could be on? You know, it has to have momentum, it has to have a kind of arrow to it. So, because if it doesn't, it's not going to be there. But on the other hand, there's a kind…

• 02:08:25

  Or does it view it more like the Gnostics as like, interment and flesh as the horror and its ultimate goal is only to stop this or reverse it from happening? I mean, it's like, you know, obviously I'm sort of left forking here, but I'm not, I don't know that we can assume the... Religious beliefs…

• 02:29:27

  That I think the thing is it's both you and jake I think in. Have. Opposed actually a model that is perfectly I some more but I don't know whether you two are both seeing I see that yeah I and which makes me want to ask the question then so but right now it's correct me if I'm wrong we're talking about super…

• 02:53:11

  Thank you. Yeah, you've been great. Fantastic stuff.