/lit/ - Literature

>>13982094
land

>>13869395
cont.

This map shows the human and technical development of the idea of Intelligence. It is a diagram that observes the human being as a biological entity in favor of having a larger image of what is happening on this planet and its relationship with its inhabitants. It has two axes, the political and the technological. The politician has relation with everything that is human, and the technological one has relation with all theoretical and applied scientific development on the planetary phenomenon that is the reason, or logos.

We are intelligent carbon-based beings who are on the way to developing superior intelligence, like cells uniting and working to create a new human being. Where does this phenomenon leave us? Are we pieces of a larger entity?

Hyperstition implies the idea itself brings itself into actuality; it isn't simply "a story" and it certainly isn't coded with human intentions of influencing behaviour. Hyperstition implies an idea which moves from virtual to actual, that is, where a superstition or a story isn't real, hyperstitions are, and they bring themselves into actuality through us.
>superstition: don't walk under ladders, it's bad luck >people don't walk under ladders
>hyperstition: be hg wells and write about bulletproof war machine >tank gets invented a few decades later

>"My instagram bio was: "I pledge allegiance to the robot overlords" for, like, two years. I thought people understood that I ultimately probably believe in an AI dictatorship. I mean, I don't think humanity is going to survive anyway. We're fucked. I think AI is the natural evolution. It's just like we killed the fucking Neanderthals, and now they're going to kill us.
>Claire Boucher.

>So basically the prophecies in the old and new testament are, in fact, hyperstitions?
Yes, in a very real sense the Judaeo-Christian cannon is full of hyperstition. Nick Land talks about this in relation to recursivity in time. So we're in a very ancient war between hyperstitions. Hegel Reloaded.

>Martin Heidegger interview in 1969 about the technological advance and its consequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtATDlUSIx