Two very different things worth reading in parallel on the tortured future of AI and democracy. Daron Acemoğlu on Mamdani and worker-powered AI on.ft.com/3XmuL5s and Matthew D'Ancona on Nick Land's right-wing technospiritualism www.thenewworld.co.uk/matthew-danc...

Been thinking about your joke the other day that we haven't yet reached Victorian levels of technospiritualism. There's a real class development story there because it was exactly the new bourgeoise buying mummy fingers or whatever. And that's where are again: a sort of gnostic, booj revivalism.

It was a matter of time. Brilliant breakdown by Taylor Lorenz.
#ai #artificialintelligence #technology #religion #cult #brainwash #technospiritualism

rokos basilisk is just tech “I’ll believe in god bc I am afraid of hell” wrapped in secular technospiritualism and once I realized that I was like oh. This is all stupid.

Put me on the pod coach I have opinions about rationalism /jk

#TechnoSpiritualism The #spritis of old are described via #software.
#topDownCausation is enabled by #informationProcessing

#ricing in this view is a kind of #meditation on the mental. The act of building ones own operating system shows one truths about what a good software interface is.

she really thinks we're going to space tomorrow. she really thinks she's fated to die for some technospiritualism.