Comment by gom_jabbar
3 months ago
Yes, and Accelerationism predicted this development back in the 1990s, perhaps most prominently in the opening lines of Nick Land's Meltdown (1994) text:
[[ ]] The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.
> reasoning models which do AI research
In the introduction to my research project on Accelerationism [0], I write:
Faced with the acceleration of progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) — with AI agents now automating AI research and development —, Accelerationism no longer seems like an abstract philosophy producing empty hyperstitional hype, but like a sober description of reality. The failed 2023 memorandum to stop AI development on systems more powerful than OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 perfectly illustrates the phenomenological aspects of Accelerationism: "To be rushed by the phenomenon, to the point of terminal institutional paralysis, is the phenomenon." [1]
At the current rate of acceleration, if you don't write hyperstitionally, your texts are dead on arrival.
[1] Nick Land (2017). A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism in Jacobite Magazine.
Hope we get the Nick Land the younger, and not Nick Land the elder, set of outcomes. Somewhere, sometime, along the way, it seems like everything from CCRU and Duginism leapt out of the page into the real. Maybe it's just the beginning of the Baudrilliardian millennium.
Nice. Though I couldn't understand those "opening lines" until I read in your Introduction:
> For Land, capitalism begins in Northern Italy around 1500 with "the emerging world of technologists and accountants", the spiral interexcitation of "oceanic navigation and place-value calculation", and zero-unlocked double-entry book-keeping
Fibonacci, amongst many others, played a critical role that highly accelerative technology.