NCCP 700-1015 — Anthropol The Future of Human Insecurity (Session 1)

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• 00:00:00

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

• 00:25:23

  And that's an absolutely essential voice, you know, exactly saying maybe we can get this threat, this particular threat, let's say we're at the moment fixated on this question of intelligence explosion, maybe we can get it down to the kind of, this marginal level right out on the tail of the distribution. That…

• 00:46:23

  Yeah. I don't know if... I'll just keep my call. He'd say that you're doing all sorts of things with an intelligence entity. You're trying to preemptively explore its possibilities of action and things like this. You're basically in a situation where you have to... You have to try to think as best…

• 01:07:51

  Right. So that's what I'm really stoked to talk about and really. Okay. I'll definitely look this up then. And is there already a kind of discussion underway that you're involved in that's kind of criticizing this? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, a lot. Especially in India, Pakistan and Colombia which are three…

• 01:30:07

  then we it gives us a very different picture of what we're talking about when we're talking about AI as something that's just one big program that someone has has put together on a massive I really like the two things perhaps on existential risk and where you define AI as essentially capital and and you've said that's…

• 01:54:26

  Like, you know, we've adapted to, so a threat is some guy with a big stick in his hand approaching you at a high speed or some fanged animal coming at you out of a bush. It's, you know, to talk about these kind of information or envelopment issues as being a real threat that, that can trigger some kind of visceral…

• 02:13:56

  That is totally playing into its strengths rather than its weaknesses. But having said that, I'm sure that Zerzan must have an answer to that or a response to it, which I need to look up. Do you have anything more that you would like to say about it? No, I've really just started to get into his stuff. I mean, I know…

• 02:34:22

  So thanks a lot. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, have a good week.