This is a thread for the discussion of topics such as: >The future of technology >The impact of technology on society >Use of technology to achieve our goals >Protection of privacy in a technological world >The present and future of society >Global corporations and their influence >Accelerationism >Aesthetics
This thread is NOT for discussions on: >Race (Dozens of those already on the board) >Random political events, unless relevant >Jew shit
Nick Land's Accelerationism can be summed up in the word cybernetics. Capitalism is a positive feedback loop- the more capital produced the more capital available for further production. Land wants to liberate the means of production, accelerating this knowledge boom into either the collapse of Capitalism (left acc) or a singularity (right acc).
Ramp up capitalism until it turns the world into a hellscape where the government somehow has less power than the massive corporations controlling the populace, and everyone has to live off the grid to avoid McDeath Squads, which leads people to rise up and lynch the corporate heads, taking their place an ushering in a new era of feudal lordship.
Genetic engineering is degeneracy but robotic upgrades is patrician.
Angel Evans
Also what kind of aesthetics you guys sporting? I just ordered a ton of old computer parts off the internet. Stuff like old mechanical keyboards, mechanical mouses, crt monitors, etc. Building a workstation.
Gabriel Lewis
Agree, added to the pastebin, will put up when next thread goes up. If you ask me, genetic engineering would be good for disease curing and stuff like that. Using it for looks would be kind of weird though. Robotic upgrades creep me out. I'd rather have all the tech on the outside of my body.
Blake Garcia
I think 200 years in the future when Mars is colonized and we already have or are sending missions further to exoplanets, thats when we truly have somekinda blade runner style cities, wearable technology clothes, and something.
Wyatt Bennett
The flesh is weak, cyborg enchancments when.
Also if you want to see what the future looks like you just need to go across your northern border.
I think talking of capitalism is politics and we should try to void it. Reason is: major big corporations like apple, shell, are not capitalistic. They are so called corporate fascist. They use bribery, break laws and other things, to get their way in countries.
If you just outright want to ban capitalism because you are jealous to rich people, then you are preventing the old woman from selling apples on the street for the price she wants.
Capitalism is free market. When you bribe politicians, threaten journalists, and so on, that is just human nature doing dictatorial barbaric stuff. But to just blame everything on capitalism makes you on the eyes of people like me: on the same level as some antifa drug addict who loves communism.
Lets not take capitalism in this thread plz. This is interesting thread. I understand where you come from.
For exampel future Japan. Japan has large companies, sad high suicide rate, population not armed and quite kind. Now they have no immigration and they have shown aggression against foreign powers in the past so they arent totally "kind". But Japans techno cities in the future could be just the testing ground and first places on earth, where you actually have high levels of technology mixed with daily things. If functional robots, ai taxis and stuff like that would be able to be built so that they actually work and arent useless, Japan would probably make small cities that incorporate those on a daily bases.
Jackson Gonzalez
What the hell is this 8gag-tier shit.
Fuck off.
Charles Howard
Why should this board be a hugbox for faggots like you? Accelerationism is the only choice you have for the future Nigel, Mosley isn't coming back- your country is full of niggers, nigger.
Tyler Taylor
I read some Nick Land in 2012 but he took it down the same year? Havent heard much of him since then
Grayson Harris
He started posting again around 2013 and he says he will be coming back with a new book soon on the blockchain. Xenosystems.net is his blog.
Benjamin Williams
Thanks for the bump
Yeah, I'm mostly talking about capitalism in referring to huge corporations that could eventually overpower governments, not lemonade stands
Ethan Cook
also i am more and more disillusioned with politics and see tech as shaping things more, want to put more effort in that
the rise of todays tribalism on many sides i see as enabled by social media
Jackson Lee
there was a term years ago thats been repurposed at least once that could be repurposed once more - its "corporate communism" - could apply to Google and the others with their "political" control of speech
Jose Wilson
Social media definitely contributes to it, and I would go as far as to say that it is one of the worst things to happen to humanity in the last twenty years
Shit, corporate communism does make sense. Imagine a world where people, instead of being paid money by their employer, instead are given housing and food and recreation. They must work for a set amount of time each day to earn their privileges, and if they don't, they are fired and stripped of everything and left out to die. It is both communism and the opposite of communism, since corps control everything.
Jacob Wright
call me crazy but i think freedom will continue to continue. google and facebook in my view were helped into creation by usa government (darpa, pentagon).
but with the presidency of Trump, the democratic party and china and Eu, want to take control of those institutions.
If Pentagon is able to take control of those companies back to their power fully, then I see those companies going back to what they were used to mostly in the past which is just spying. Currently facebook, which is hardcore left wing, is causing right win people to leave and 50% of its users are what we call right. Thats not a goot thing for the spy people so I think technolopy will be, atleast in Usa, quite free (laugh if you want).
Correction: now since Trump is president, because of that, the democrats and china and and Eu want to take those companies to themselves.
Ayden Johnson
One reason why Google actually is going to the censorchip way is because Eu is saying that almost everything is hatespeech if you feel insulted and you cant be a player in our market if you dont obey.
Henry Lewis
the left has succesfully implanted the idea that a corp must have an agenda now (other than just the American values of personal freedom) - Google has as much control as a totalitarian government did 20-30 years ago as far as censorship when you put it in terms of control of public attention
of course you can publish political stuff yourself without getting arrested but when reach is considered a pamphlet or paper book isnt too significant now
Owen Bell
The left didn't implant that idea, they simply tricked the corporations into thinking that they will be unable to make money if they don't conform to leftist moral values. This led to jews gaining control of most of these corps, and it snowballs from there.
Bentley Powell
any podcasts or channels on these topics?
John Morales
Don't know
David Hernandez
Heard this three years ago and wished i could listen to people discuss these topics more often
Just search "cyberpunk podcasts" something good might come up
Adrian Baker
I like the General Intellect Unit podcast. I just listened to their review of the All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace documentary. Good stuff. They're cybernetic marxists though so if you're not a leftist you might not like it.
