Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital with Nick Land

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• 00:00:00

  you're basically one of the leading thinkers, I would say, arguably the leading thinker of what we might call the school of thought that's known as accelerationism. And I would say that just very briefly, and certainly all too schematically, accelerationism is something like the view that contemporary history…

• 00:25:17

  I want to go back a little bit to all of these notions and ideas that you spent a lot of time theorizing, which I mentioned before in the 90s. What I just aside from the ideological confusions, what I'm curious is, you know, there's a lot of pretty concrete mechanisms. Or or tactics, if you will, that you theorize…

• 00:45:33

  The model of intelligence explosion as it comes out of the kind of more, I think, I think rigorous, but still speculative side of this of this artificial intelligence world. And I'm thinking obviously particularly of this amazing essay by I.J. Good, just called it. So I'm going to forget the name now. It's been…

• 01:06:01

  I mean, all of. All of these things are open to, you know, open to a whole variety of extreme scenarios. But it makes perfect sense now for someone to say, look, I am, you know, what science is telling me is that I am a transmission device for a certain kind of hereditary piece of DNA code. And that's where…

• 01:35:47

  human civilization up until then had tried to contain and was able to to some degree contain was able to get out of the box as you put it and you think that that is especially uniquely related to the arrival of zero in human kind of mathematical capacities within within europe you think that that kind…

• 02:03:25

  So, you know, I mean, obviously, I don't see how anyone could could disagree that there is a challenge to systems of control. I would have thought that the question is whether, you know. Um. The. Dominant political argument that continually comes back is whether certain systems of control are actually required…

• 02:33:36

  You allow people to basically try almost anything that they want and the businesses that work and the ones that don't work end up being liquidated. And, you know, that selective process is the one that substitutes for a process, for the necessity of an intellectual community. So if that, if, first of all, I mean, I…

• 02:56:48

  Justin, best of luck. I've really enjoyed it. I will even go as far to say best of luck with your communist blockchain. As long as you're not, uh, you're not looking for an investment.