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WOULD YOU DESTROY A BETTER WORLD TO SAVE THIS ONE?
TO GO STILL FURTHER ... IN THE MOVEMENT OF THE MARKET ... FOR PERHAPS THE FLOWS ARE NOT YET DETERRITORIALIZED ENOUGH, NOT DECODED ENOUGH ... NOT TO WITHDRAW FROM THE PROCESS, BUT TO GO FURTHER, TO "ACCELERATE THE PROCESS" ... THE TRUTH IS THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING YET.
I SWEAR BY MY LIFE AND MY LOVE OF IT THAT I WILL NEVER LIVE FOR THE SAKE OF ANOTHER MAN, NOR ASK ANOTHER MAN TO LIVE FOR MINE.
EVERY MAN IS FREE TO DO THAT WHICH HE WILLS, PROVIDED HE INFRINGES NOT THE EQUAL LIBERTY OF ANY OTHER MAN.
IN ITS COLDER VARIANTS, WHICH ARE THOSE THAT WIN OUT, ACCELERATIONISM TENDS TO LAUGH.
WE WILL ENJOY OUR ALIENATION
DARKLY • AESTHETICIZE • WHAT'S • COMING
Index
To briefly explain the structure of this blog: this is a nearly direct export of my Zettelkasten knowledge system. I call the hypertext nodes here thoughts instead of "posts," because they can be changed, rewritten, and edited over time — to erase mistakes or represent my changing views — but can also remain stagnant and unedited as I move on to thinking more actively about other things — whether unrelated, or specific related subtopics — and my views change but I haven't had time to go back and edit them.
Thus, if you want to get a more complete and up to date understanding of my views on a topic, look at a whole thought page, not just an individual thought: like any brain, my public second brain is a constantly changing, evolving web of beliefs which is moved forward precisely by the tensions between various parts of it, forcing it to move in one direction or another.
Recent Updates
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The problem is not culture
I recently came across a very frustrating blog post. Here are some assorted thoughts on why I think it's wrong. While I don't know much about Dan's background, Simon has a Wikipedia article about him, so with a little snooping we can find that he qualified in computer science, has received Y Combinator funding and worked for at least one Silicon Valley luminary, and currently sits on the board of the Python Software Foundation. I think this is a very disingenuous way of framing Simon's life and ... -
Who uses LLMs?
There's this common argument that only those who are bad at coding, or don't care about the craft of it, use AI to code. I think this is pretty clearly false. Let's look at a list, shall we? -
Why I publish in the public domain
(Further development from my somewhat juvenile flailing in this direction here.)“We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separate and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.”—Henry Miller, Sexus I spend entirely too much time thinking about software --- and other creative work --- licensing, particularly from an ethical perspective. The reason I do this is because I think licenses are a very interesting intersection of a rigorous legal instrument, a political manifesto... -
The loom-maker's luddism
Software developers need a reality check. We are a trade that has spent decades feeling like we were the prime movers of progress through technological automation. Now that we've suddenly realized that we're subject to the same historical forces we applied to everyone else, we shouldn't back down. We cannot demand the benefits of the Industrial Revolution while simultaneously trying to build a software developer guild system to protect our own privileges. I see frequent statements online from de... -
The fascination of Nick Land: a Landian accelerationism primer
"Mad black Deleuzean" is how Ray Brassier described Nick Land once, and it strikes at the heart of exactly why he's so interesting. Haven't dived into Land yet? Kind of avoided him? That's fair. New Land is a boring lolcow --- the Dark Enlightenment guy who ended up a Nixonian geriatric whining about "grievance-mongers" and immigrants --- but no, I'm talking about old Land. Pre Dark Enlightenment fascist turn. Of the Fanged Noumena and CCRU (Cybernetic culture research unit, the writings of whic...