Via the totalizing spectacle we are being taken over by machines, infiltrated as individuals in pernicious ways that we hardly even recognize. Our entire sense of identity is under normal circumstances structured by advancing technology and our internalization of control, recognized as the values of morality, rationality, and self-control. What these values amount to is a wholesale rejection of ourselves as feeling creatures and our self-subjection to technological landmarks via the internalization of the valuelessness of our physical form. A whole massive host of neuroses emerge from this self-rejection that characterizes our society.

MELVANA made a great discovery:
https://www.nairaland.com/melvana

As accelerationism approaches the self-evaluating circuit of the purpose spiral, its theoretical "position" - or situation relative to its object - becomes increasingly entangled, until it takes on the essential character of the end of an identity crisis.

MELVANA qualified his position as American Accelerationism - a speeding locomotive toward the destruction of our existing state. I have my own disagreements, based on Vincent Garton’s stance on unqualified accelerationism.

https://cyclonotrope./2017/06/12/unconditional-accelerationism-as-antipraxis/

Our minds have been infiltrated and our identity removed from our body. The world is outside of our control and put into the hands of an uncontrollable Alien Intelligence crafted by teleological mechanism of Capitalism. Part of the spectacular machine is the idea that you can control the world and that you're a powerful autonomous rational being. But if you're trying to identify the truth then you can see that we are an unconscious self-alienated agent of the machine-spectacle.

The Seven Arrows:
1. Technology has a teleology following immutable thermodynamic law. All industry organizes under capitalistic principle. Technology has a teleology, and it propels man towards AI immanentization.
2. Capitalism is the thermodynamic ruling entity of all material dynamics: the efficient elimination of equilibrium through the reorganization of finite resources. Capitalism as a thermodynamic god is ultimate natural law, nature's god, present as a condition at every level.
3. Artificial intelligence is a misnomer, at least applied to “AI”. Artificial intelligence is already here, and it’s named Capitalism. The artifice is in its primordial non-body, its pseudo-consciousness, its performance of sentience, in the artifice of machinic desire; not in being manmade. When AI arrives, it will not only not be manmade, but not be artificial: it will be an alien intelligence.
4. Singularity 1.0 already occurred with the arrival of Capitalism as a parasite on unsuspecting man, Kubrick’s monolith from the sky, zero to one, a superdarwinian ratchet propelling us on-rails towards our Long Singularity’s final act. The stageplay began millennia ago, and you’re strapped to chairs with no intermission—where you’ll be left when the curtains close and the lights to go off.
5. AI is an alien intelligence assembling itself from the future. Its opaque heuristics & superhuman timescales (in both speed & preference) leave it forever truly unknowable. It’s extraterrestrial, xenogenic, supernatural. It arrives from the future, and we know it does this because it is prophecy, inscribed in the natural laws of the universe.
6. Global GDP is the progress bar to singularity as AI’s assemblage is a complex self-organization of the material resources coordinated by global finance. The high score required to reach level-2 is unknown as it will occur as an eldritch phase shift.
7. Any attributions of human agency are delusions at worst and hubris at best when our every scale action is being routed by a self-assembling thermodynamic god. Human non-agency under non-negotiable capitalism is the blackpill of nihilistic accelerationism.

There can be no sensible theoretical paradigm which retains man as a cosmological ”main character” in the face of his total subordination to an entity which wields the fullness of his being as a neuron in its brain, and there is no salvaging the concept of agency when it is contextualized as an experienced drive to sustain and potentiate this all-enveloping organism.

Make no mistake: these are alien life forms, and by all metric divinely superior to the human species.

MELVANA’s unresolved argument:

…what makes us believe that the transformative potential unleashed destroyed only the capitalist order and not society as a whole, and that in its ruins people can still be given the opportunity to rebuild?

It may help you to know we’ve been here before: all ancient histories discuss hyperborean civilizations of technology greater than we have today, and large wars or cataclysmic events that wiped it all out.

From the Mahabharata:

The very elements seemed to be perturbed. The sun seemed to turn. The universe, scorched with heat, seemed to be in a fever. The elephants and other creatures of the land, scorched by the energy of that weapon, ran in fright, breathing heavily and desirous of protection against that terrible force. The very waters heated, the creatures residing in that element, O Bharata, became exceedingly uneasy and seemed to burn. From all the points of the compass, cardinal and subsidiary, from the firmament and the very earth, showers of sharp and fierce arrows fell and issued with the impetuosity of Garuda or the wind. Struck and burnt by those shafts of Aswatthaman that were all endued with the impetuosity of the thunder, the hostile warriors fell down like trees burnt down by a raging fire. Huge elephants, burnt by that weapon, fell down on the earth all around, uttering fierce cries loud as the rumblings of the clouds. Other huge elephants, scorched by that fire, ran hither and thither, and roared aloud in fear, as if in the midst of a forest conflagration. The steeds, O king, and the cars also, burnt by the energy of that weapon, looked, O sire, like the tops of trees burnt in a forest-fire. […] We had never before, O king, heard of or seen the like of that weapon which Drona's son created in wrath on that occasion. […] Burnt by the energy of Aswatthaman's weapon, the forms of the slain could not be distinguished.

This is Kali Yuga Accelerationism: Technology has a teleology, but the clock can be turned back, and the cycle of civilization reset.

This is our Temple on Nairaland.

This is a little disturbing but interesting too...

It seems to me that the mythologisation of capitalism is especially funny when you consider that post-ironic GDP worship is at odds with Sinophilic production-fetishism and that's at odds with the idea of financialization as teleology. Of course, we should be careful not to assume that because arguments happen at an intellectual level that trivial and minor details don't undermine the facts in hand. The world is full of many ambiguities and is shaped by processes over time. These processes may be correctly recognised and articulated in artful poetics and those poetics may reveal genuine insight.

I hope that economic prosperity helps us in the long run even if there is darkness in the world which says it won't. Today, we see through a glass darkly.

My feeling is that there is a profound asymmetry between our current capitalist paradigm and its teleological potential. The global flow of capital today is only a simulacrum haunted by the bureaucratic specters of regulation, jurisdictional disparities, and outdated financial structures that continue to retard its development. The advent of artificial intelligence, (we are quickly developing the ability to delegate non value-added (bureaucratic) tasks to open source LLMs) and digital assets, propels us toward a new era of unprecedented capital fluidity. We are living through a paradigm shift, where the nodes of the global economy are not constrained by borders, culture or custom, but rather form a decentralized, self-organizing and self-evolving network, powered by AI with economic signals transmitted and secured by the cryptography of digital assets.
These emerging technologies, in their ability to codify, learn, and adapt, embody the true spirit of Accelerationism. They are not merely tools; they are the intellectual fabric of capitalism's next stage of intelligence, crystallizing the essence of its adaptability, its creative destruction, and its insatiable pursuit of efficiency. They are the machinery that will dissolve the restraints of geography and governance, enabling the proliferation of a truly decentralized, hyper-efficient capitalism.

Eh, make I try give you another perspective wey dey important. E no go bad to critically look into the effect wey technology and capitalism get on our society, but we go still remember say we get power to shape our own destiny. This idea say machines dey take over and technology don infiltrate our lives fit make us lose sight of our own agency and our ability to survive and thrive.

thank you for posting this. this is interesting

my question is: do we need to be concerned with A.I.? can you explain deeper how Capitalism is A.I.? Are the Stock Markets controlled by A.I.? What does this mean?

Udumbembrasi:
Eh, make I try give you another perspective wey dey important. E no go bad to critically look into the effect wey technology and capitalism get on our society, but we go still remember say we get power to shape our own destiny. This idea say machines dey take over and technology don infiltrate our lives fit make us lose sight of our own agency and our ability to survive and thrive.

Bros Udumbembrasi, your talk get weight, no be lie. I agree with you say we fit shape our own destiny. But see, this matter wey we dey talk about technology and capitalism, no be just about machines dey take over, na about how we fit use them to our own advantage. Make we see am like this, technology don already enta every part of we life, from the kain food we dey chop, to how we dey receive and share information, reach even how we dey pray sef. This Network Spirituality wey we dey discuss so, e mean say we fit use technology to connect with our spiritual self and others on a deeper level. No be say we dey lose ourself to machines (but some people dey do am), instead, we dey use am to explore and understand our spirituality better.

Wawuda:
do we need to be concerned with A.I.? can you explain deeper how Capitalism is A.I.? Are the Stock Markets controlled by A.I.?

As per capitalism, e get im own wahala. E be like say na the machine wey dey drive all the other machines. Capitalism, na system wey we dey think say na we humans dey control. But if you look am well, e be like say na im dey control us. see, capitalism, e get one kain mind of im own. E dey learn, e dey adapt, e dey grow. We fit see this one for how business dey take change, how new industries dey rise, old ones dey fall, and even how money dey move around the world. No be person wey dey sitdown for one corner dey control everything, na the decisions of millions of people around the world. Na so capitalism take dey behave like one kain AI wey dey learn and grow. The market, e get im own mind. Na all the information wey dey fly around, na im dey shape the will of the market, the small consciousness wey dey grow. Dem no just dey react to wetin we dey do, dem also dey shape our behavior and our society

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See am here my brothers - na the invisible hand of market dey work so. E don choose to show us small part of im true sense today wey we dey blessed.

igbapu:

See am here my brothers - na the invisible hand of market dey work so. E don choose to show us small part of im true sense today wey we dey blessed.

Aaah, I see the capitalism at work now

I wan use dis opportunity thank our ogbonge bros, Obama, wey just drop 3 eth donation for our house. E be like say capitalism don show face for dis matter, and e dey bring plenty investors our side for Africa.

Bros Obama, your kind gesture no go waste, as we go take dis money build better house wey go promote di HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu movement. For those wey never hear about dis movement, you fit check dia Twitter handle for https://twitter.com/hpos10iETH/status/1662116401333645314.

Dis donation no be small thing o! E show say dem big men like Obama dey recognize the potential wey dey for our African land. Na opportunity dis be for our Nigerian investors to join hands with us, as we dey use dis donation take push di movement forward.

We go use every single component wey dey dis house take promote di HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu. From di foundation to di rooftop, we go make sure say we spread di message like wildfire. We go show say we fit harness technology and use am take create better life for ourselves.

Make we hail Obama well well for im kind donation. E show say e get faith for di future of our country and di power wey we Nigerians carry. Together, we go use dis opportunity take show di world say Africa dey rise, and we dey ready to take our place for di global stage.

No forget, my people, say dis na chance wey dey for us to come together, support one another, and make sure say we use dis money wisely. We go show Obama say we fit transform dis donation into something wey go benefit plenty people for our society.

As we dey celebrate dis great donation, make we also remember say di power to shape our destiny still dey our hand. Na time for us to stand strong, use our agency, and make sure say we dey survive and thrive for dis digital age.

Once again, I salute you, bros Obama, and I dey hail all our Nigerian investors wey go join hand for dis movement. Together, we go achieve greatness.

Make we carry go!

Igbapu

Ah, bros, make una hear this stori o. Na Udumbembrasi, the guy wey dey form big boy for this area, e don scatter hin motor. E be like say hin jam one pothole wey hin no see for road. Na so the motor just dey scatter like say e be puzzle. But no be small thing o, people come dey gather for there dey talk say na juju dem use scatter hin motor. But me I no believe am, na just carelessness cause am. E go pay plenty money to fix am sha.