NCCP 700-1015 — Anthropol The Future of Human Insecurity (Session 2)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello everyone. Welcome to the second session of Nick Land's Anthropole, the future of human insecurity seminar. I'm going to pass on the mic and the camera to Nick to start his class. Okay, cool. Thanks, Mo. Yes, welcome everybody. So today's sort of kickoff point on this is I've broadcast it as the paper clipper…

• 00:24:56

  In fact, I'm going to stick the link in the little box, which is a recent piece, I think recent, by Benjamin Noyes on killer drones, which is a topic that should, at least could arguably come hugely into our discussion. It's down there. Yeah, here we go. It's called Drone Metaphysics. You know, nicely consistent with…

• 00:49:09

  Those constraints, I think, I'm sorry I'm digressing here, but I think it needs to be sublimated a little bit. But a crucial part of this whole notion of threat and of skepticism about it is that from the human point of view and from this sort of institutional AI production thing, not the friendly AI people, people…

• 01:11:10

  Right. Okay, well, there's a lot going on there. Does it have politics? Does it need to derive? There's a lot going on there. I mean, you know, maybe we should take a step back. There's lots of possible political angles on this. Like Anthropole is a political institution. So, you know, it's totally part of the group…

• 01:29:11

  I mean, I think it's utterly crucial what you're saying on this in all kinds of ways, because, you know, I hope we'll get to this, I must make sure we can say this, but this whole singular discussion is like, It's massive. It is. Yeah. No, go. I was going to see if Brandon wants to chime in, because he's been putting…

• 01:49:29

  Yeah. Don't tell Reza I'm coming is the way to do it. But yeah, it will be December 11th and 12th in New York. Do a Dr. Phil. Yeah, totally. You know when you bring out the like guests from behind the camera. Surprise guests. But yeah, it will be December 11th and 12th. That's awesome. Right. Oh, fuck. Wait, wait…

• 02:18:35

  but The two sides being like saying like saying like bizarre scenarios in which the drive of an AI is the Paperclip scenario it could be directly linked to the question of its materiality and its material engineering Yeah, I mean I guess all that I mean this is going to be paired with the question that's on the side…

• 02:42:50

  There's some fascinating material there but I'm really looking forward to having a proper – spending some proper quality time with it. So great. Thank you. See you next week. Thank you. Have a good one. Bye. Thanks. Broadcast ends right here. Thanks. Thank you.