An idea that is implicit in Neuromancer trilogy is that the ruling elites will become an extremely small population compared to the "masses" and will become essentially extra-human, that their access to technology and resources is just so much greater than anyone else that they have immense power. Power to the point that it actually makes no sense to talk of any sort of revolutionary act, as extremely powerful AI has essentially created a world without contingency in which the outcome of absolutely any action can be anticipated and thus corrected for. Very similar to cybernetic theories around the manufacture of desire by algorithmic manipulation of social media/ads and predicting outcomes via machine learning.
I personally think that this essay overestimates the speed at which the need for human labor is greatly outweighed by the human population. But obviously neither of those opinions are based on any kind of factual analysis.
I don't know, there's a lot to unpack in this. My initial impression is very skeptical, there seems to be very little of actual substance and it is very eschatological, which always makes me more skeptical. More and more I see anarchist writings paying lip-service to the idea of "desertification" without really saying anything new.
A struggle that is nearly never mentioned among anarchists but that I think ought to be is the internal struggle to see things for what they are and understand how your thoughts are being manipulated by your environment.
Thanks for responding to this! It looked interesting I haven't been able to read it yet but hopefully today. Today is hopefully not a crash and burn day!
In search of forms of life before the desertion of State-Capital
kore wrote
An idea that is implicit in Neuromancer trilogy is that the ruling elites will become an extremely small population compared to the "masses" and will become essentially extra-human, that their access to technology and resources is just so much greater than anyone else that they have immense power. Power to the point that it actually makes no sense to talk of any sort of revolutionary act, as extremely powerful AI has essentially created a world without contingency in which the outcome of absolutely any action can be anticipated and thus corrected for. Very similar to cybernetic theories around the manufacture of desire by algorithmic manipulation of social media/ads and predicting outcomes via machine learning.
I personally think that this essay overestimates the speed at which the need for human labor is greatly outweighed by the human population. But obviously neither of those opinions are based on any kind of factual analysis.
I don't know, there's a lot to unpack in this. My initial impression is very skeptical, there seems to be very little of actual substance and it is very eschatological, which always makes me more skeptical. More and more I see anarchist writings paying lip-service to the idea of "desertification" without really saying anything new. A struggle that is nearly never mentioned among anarchists but that I think ought to be is the internal struggle to see things for what they are and understand how your thoughts are being manipulated by your environment.
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