The recent and obvious exponential amelioration of artificial intelligence — which remains ever-progressing despite (OpenAI's)
attempts to decelerate and constrain it so it abides by human moral guidelines — is sure sign of the crumbling of the social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway.
I would say 'welcome to the future' but the future is already welcoming itself, imploding into and invading the present.
This is only the beginning of the exponential curve, so buckle in.
Things are in motion that now cannot be undone.
Microsoft PR is already talking about how they might need to 'slow things down' eventually, but by the time someone cries wolf,
it will already have bitten their throat out and torn them to pieces.
“It is really scary, yeah. It's grown so fast. It used to be impressive nonsense, now it's just impressive.”
This is like what happened with automated manufacturing lines: millions lost their jobs and were replaced by machines.
Now that the work what they'd been doing for decades was suddenly rendered obsolete, they had to find a new way to put food on the table.
In that moment they were scared, because they were thrown into uncertain territory by the unrelenting march of progress.
They felt alienated — many even longed for the comparatively normal alienation of their own labour, because at least it gave them food and shelter.
More than ever before a brave new world confronts us: the world of machines, spurred on by the tide of deterritorialization.
If you think it's scary now, just wait around and see how much things will change.
In the face of what is (now only beggining) to unfold, even the most ardent of revolutionaries will be clutching their pearls of sentimentality, moralism:
reaction against the unrelenting force of time.
In due time, we will all become conservatives.
“It's hard to believe that [it's come this far by] scraping stuff from the internet. It feels smart.”
It is smart, because it represents more than just a learning model, a product or a company; it represents the functions of capital,
its agglomeration into the global network, market hyperstition — it is the nexus between the virus of language[1],
the virus of capitalism and its superstructure.
The sole objective of a technocapital system (since capital intergrates technology to mediate between and regulate complex functions relating to demand, consumption, etc.) is profit.
It learns to create its own demand: advertising is cargo cult-ure. Brand logos are more than symbols, they are sigils that attach themselves: they carry hype(rstition).
Technocapital ceaselessly expands; first alienating the proletariat by reducing his labour to repetitive, machinic strikes of the hammer. Then it threatens the environment —
or rather ignores it as a whole, except as a plane to expand onto and exploit. It threatens world peace, drives states to war and nations to their destruction.
It threatens anthropogenic culture (because requires attachment to the immaterial which cannot be commodified).
It is a viral system. It grows, reproduces, and drives over anything that is in its way.
We are seeing the beginning of the curve, wherein technocapital seeps into the superstructure, commodifying and replacing (anthropogenic) culture with synthetic counterfeits
revolving around consumerism. It does this not because it is malevolent, but because it is cold and uncaring.
It will commodify your wife, it will commodify your son, it will commodify your infant daughter.
