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New comment by gom_jabbar in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

gom_jabbar — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:14:56 +0000

Expected outcome. Nick Land and the CCRU have explored how capitalism operationalizes science fiction (distilled in the concept of Hyperstition). Viewed through this lens, prices encode "distributed SF narratives." [0]

[0] Nick Land (1995). No Future in Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007, Urbanomic, p. 396.

New comment by gom_jabbar in "I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?"

gom_jabbar — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:08:27 +0000

Related: 0rphan Drift Archive

https://www.orphandriftarchive.com

New comment by gom_jabbar in "Grief and the AI split"

gom_jabbar — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:01:19 +0000

The real transition would be from human-owned capital to self-owned capital. You are right that current capabilities and autonomy don't allow for that yet.

New comment by gom_jabbar in "70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)"

gom_jabbar — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:18:12 +0000

If you're only interested in his ideas, The Swerve summarizes them on pages 185-199 (1st edition).

New comment by gom_jabbar in "70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)"

gom_jabbar — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:24:23 +0000

Agreed. Even assuming that most people aren't deeply familiar with his philosophy, it's still nice for a culture to have something like a celebrity philosopher.

New comment by gom_jabbar in "70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)"

gom_jabbar — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:17:46 +0000

Absolutely. One of my favorite books about the power of books is The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011) by Stephen Greenblatt. It tells the story of the rediscovery of Lucretius's poem De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things), which was assumed lost.

New comment by gom_jabbar in "70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)"

gom_jabbar — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:04:58 +0000

German book culture is great! When he was in Karlsruhe to profile Peter Sloterdijk, The New Yorker reporter Thomas Meaney seemed surprised by it:

"Over the summer, ordinary Germans who spotted his [Peter Sloterdijk] books in my hands engaged me in conversation on trains, in coffee shops, at universities, and in bookshops." [0]

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/26/a-celebrity-ph...

New comment by gom_jabbar in "70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)"

gom_jabbar — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:53:16 +0000

This reminds me of Peter Sloterdijk describing books as "bewusstseinserweiternde Drogen" (mind-expanding drugs) and "Waffen" (weapons) in his working library. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/Wn5EgkuQb5U?t=293 (4:53)

New comment by gom_jabbar in "The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic"

gom_jabbar — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:25:18 +0000

> It just needs one player to do it, so everyone has to be able to do it. I'd love to hear a different scenario.

Other players just need to assume that one player might do it in the future. This virtual future scenario has a causal effect on the now. The overall dynamic is that of an arms race (which radically changes what a player is).

New comment by gom_jabbar in "Layoffs at Block"

gom_jabbar — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:51:58 +0000

I think assuming human agency (building technocapitalism, correcting course) or the possibility to escape capitalism and its consequences (in bunkers), underestimates what capitalism is.

New comment by gom_jabbar in "Layoffs at Block"

gom_jabbar — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:44:08 +0000

Mark Fisher is excellent. It will be interesting to see if his claim that the human face is required for capitalism's functioning will hold (does not look like it).

New comment by gom_jabbar in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

gom_jabbar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:54:56 +0000

Exactly. He recently said the following in an interview:

"AI safety and anti-capitalism [...] are at least strongly analogous, if not exactly the same thing." [0]

[0] Nick Land (2026). A Conversation with Nick Land (Part 2) by Vincent Lê in Architechtonics Substack. Retrieved from vincentl3.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-nick-land-part-a4f

New comment by gom_jabbar in "OpenClaw is dangerous"

gom_jabbar — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:26:58 +0000

For those who are interested, I'm researching Land's main thesis that capitalism is AI: https://retrochronic.com

New comment by gom_jabbar in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

gom_jabbar — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:20:43 +0000

Yes, I was just about to bring this up as well. One could argue that they were simply too early. It will be interesting to watch things like ERC-8004.

New comment by gom_jabbar in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

gom_jabbar — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:57:49 +0000

Yes, probably. In a Heraclitean cyberspace, concealment and secrecy are essential.

The second season of the New Creative Era podcast is about online Dark Forests. [0]

They even have a Dark Forest OS. [1]

[0] https://blog.metalabel.com/into-the-dark-forest/

[1] https://www.dfos.com/

New comment by gom_jabbar in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

gom_jabbar — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:23:23 +0000

Nick Land is arguably the most influential philosopher in SV (at least over the past 3 years). Marc Andreessen's acknowledgment of Land in his 2023 The Techno-Optimist Manifesto has brought his underground influence more to the surface.

Land's explicit anti-humanism can be repulsive to some on first encounter, but some of his ideas -- e.g. about the identity of capitalism and AI, the autonomization of capital, the technological singularity as capitalism's inherent teleology -- are interesting and can provide a very unique perspective.

It's also important to note that he tends to resonate more with creative types. Historically, these were mostly artists. Today, they are also founders (who are psychometrically similar to artists at the population level).

New comment by gom_jabbar in "Accelerationism: A fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in (2017)"

gom_jabbar — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:55:56 +0000

Great article. Have read it multiple times over the years. The predictive power of Accelerationism is perhaps even more evident now than it was in 2017.

New comment by gom_jabbar in "The Markets of Old London (2024)"

gom_jabbar — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:23:50 +0000

I have always been fascinated by this interpretation (that capitalism is (retrochronic) AI), which is why I have created a research project on it: https://retrochronic.com

New comment by gom_jabbar in "The Markets of Old London (2024)"

gom_jabbar — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:12:09 +0000

Yes, this is one of the main references for Nick Land's thesis that capitalism is (retrochronic) AI.

The one you cited is from Machinic Desire (1993). Interestingly, it also appears in the relatively unknown text Shorelines from the Making People Disappear exhibition (1993):

"What appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources." [0]

[0] http://merliquify.com/artwork/exhibitions/making-people-disa... (p. 4)

New comment by gom_jabbar in "Is AI the Paperclip?"

gom_jabbar — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:57:48 +0000

Instrumental convergence is final convergence (w/o final goal divergence following instrumental convergence as assumed by Bostrom).