Nick Land at Theory Underground (1)

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• 00:00:00

  All right, everybody, welcome to Theory Underground. What you're about to listen to is an interview that we did with Nick Land last week. Very exciting that he was able to join us, considering how important he is for thinking the situation today. Okay, Michael Downs, aka Mikey of the Mikey Seminar here at TU, taught…

• 00:25:16

  That can itself build its own intelligence. You have an extremely powerful positive feedback mechanism. And I think it's obviously, you know, this, this attention to positive feedback going right back, you know, to the CCRUs. The CCRU, I think was born in that thought, in the thought that positive feedback has been…

• 00:55:06

  And it required very specific historical circumstances to break through those. And I think that's what's happening. I think that's what's happening. I think that's what's happening. I think that's what's happening. I think that's what's happening. So it has to work with us. It's not going to… Capitalism can't arrive…

• 01:17:50

  my thought you've been through everything you've been through everything you've been through everything everything from a question that takes us back, the Turing test takes us back to artificial intelligence, takes us back to our social relations with machines. Because the special status of wage labor comes from…

• 01:40:41

  We just finished a dope ass interview. But but do the things to help train your algorithm to actually give you content that you prefer. And at least here we're we are aware of the problem. We are aware that we're all infected with the algorithm. And we're trying to do something. We're trying to do something about…

• 02:15:32

  If you don't see that, you're really lost in the matrix in a kind of absolutely serious way. So, you know, that's, that's the level of these guys. That's the level to me of what is going on there. It's the fact that, you know, you don't yet know what you're doing. Is that, is that kind of why you're saying though…

• 02:55:25

  And, you know, not that that matters. You know, it's a prophecy. It's like, is it going to happen? Let's see. It could be vindicated. Cool. If it does happen, that's what I'm going to start talking about. Like, what do you make of the fact that the alphanumeric cabal has been utterly vindicated by this event happening…

• 03:15:47

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