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"The blockchain solves the problem of space time."

What did he mean by this?

>> No.8905867

he meant you don't have to use money in the real world

>> No.8905884

>>8905867
into the trash he goes

>> No.8905933

muh blockchain

>> No.8906232
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>>8905862

i'm just going to say pointless meaningless garbage about this in a casual and stupid fashion. let's go

so that sentence means that nick land is an autistic sperglord who has flipped switches in his head that can't now get unflipped. it will have something to do with an unholy fusion of marx, deleuze and kant based on accelerationism and economic determinism.

probably he means that the blockchain has something to do with minimal trust assumptions and capitalism and cryptography, since now all human work/intelligence can be measured and paid for by bitcoin and now we will seamlessly blend our meat-selves with the event horizon of technology and ai singularities

>anon y do u write like this

because i'm drunk and tired of nick land's gnostic bitching about how he's somehow an alien exile from the future who is smarter than capitalism. he memed himself right out of existence by trying to roll initiative against the DM

imagine if throughout the entirety of lord of the rings gollum was convinced he was the hero

in a way he would be right

but it would be fucking ridiculous tho wouldn't it

argh

>> No.8906826

The crypto protocol objectivizes previous subjective space time.

>> No.8906992

It means he's a retard who doesn't realise cyberspace domination will always necessarily be linked to the physical world

>> No.8907560

>>8906992
heh

>> No.8907711

>>8906826
this

kantian
>"time" == "absolute succession"
post-kantian
>relativistic spacetime (einstein, poincaré)

>relativistic spacetime
>no "absolute succession"
>no objective "time"
>cannot solve spatially distributed sync-senstive computing problems (requires single objective timeline)

>blockchain proof-of-work chain solves sync problem (approached as a byzantine generals' problem)
>blockchain has created artificial objective time chain
>kantian transcendental aesthetic wrt space/time/geometry/arithmetic was blueprint for the blockchain all along

>> No.8907931

>>8906232
Quality posting desu anon

>> No.8907947

i hope God help us to create an IA to destroy us all

>> No.8908044

>>8907711
hi, nick

>> No.8909743

>>8907711

Dubs confirm its him. Post screen cap Nick we knew its you.

>> No.8909786

negarestani > land

> not being a tellurian nihilist schizo-muslim with zoroastrian tendencies

>> No.8910266

>>8905862
post video aswell, one of the few times we can actually see and hear him speak:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PMGuNZreWA

>> No.8910943

>>8907947
An Iowa to destroy us all? As a Nebraskan I couldn't think of anything more dreadful.

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>>8910943
How would you even make Iowa an existential threat to humanity?

>wikipedia: if you have any desire to witness presidential candidates in the most close-up and intimate of settings, there is arguably no better place to go than Des Moines

I mean I get that it's already harmful to life in some senses already but I mean in like a more Michael Bay version. How would death by Iowa actually work?

maybe some deadly rolling hay bales. they'll roll your shit up completely

>> No.8911016

>>8910967
Real answer? Agriculture is the way to go but i'm thinking less hay bales, more freak pesticides in water supply or the air. Alternately, something fucks up a massive batch of feedcorn and something happens to livestock which then affects people who consume it

>> No.8911063

>>8906232
this is great

>> No.8911075

>>8910943
>>8910967
>How would you even make Iowa an existential threat to humanity?

Well, they did elect Cruz.

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>>8911016

So what you're saying is...hang on
*ahem*
*taps mic*

Get your tractor runnin'
Head out on the highway
We’re fucking with the feedstock
And starting Judgement Day

Iowa’s gonna make it happen
Turn the clock back to primaeval days
They laughed at us when we told them
The end would come from IA

Freaky mutant livestock
Pesticides and lightning
Agriculture might look boring
But mutant corn is fucking frightening
Iowa’s gonna make it happen
Turn the clock back to primaeval days
They laughed at us when we told them
The end would come from IA

And like a true nature’s child
It was the corn, Corn to be Wild
Under clear blue skies
Everybody’s gonna die

Corn to be wild…
Corn to be wild…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbATaj7Il8

>i'll show myself out

>> No.8911086

It's a shame I can't look in my brain and see what's going on.

>> No.8911090

>>8906232
and what _PRAY TELL_ is the """""five point exploding heart technique"""""????

>> No.8911095

>>8906232
>post uses the word "singularity"
>post discarded

>> No.8911097

>>8906232
>nick land's gnostic bitching
My cancerous mom who died of cancer last year was a gnostic. I thought she was a scientologist all along.

>> No.8911111
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>>8911086
you could read nietzsche tho, he looked in his brain

>and inside it was will ferrell

>> No.8911115

>>8905862

Is that a smug Lovecraft?

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>>8906232
>the DM
what is the DM?

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>>8911111
Nice post

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>>8911121
in /tg/ parlance DM = dungeon master

nick land basically attempted to do this in real life with space and time and capital. give himself an unlubed psychic colonoscopy

ever try to read fanged noumena? this is from the actually comprehensible part, which you could call schizoanalysis i guess

he is interesting. i even understand his blockchain fetish. from a marxist point of view a universal cryptocurrency that goes hand in glove with technological blastoff is definitely interesting to think about. but you have to have the dimmest possible view of humanity. as in, those spider-bots from the matrix turning people into batteries. except we are also those spider bots. and there is no neo. and secretly we want this. and elon musk is there somewhere too

it's marxism for misanthropes and people who hate the working poor. not really what karl had in mind. or deleuze. i don't know about kant

land is basically right about everything in the worst possible ways you can imagine. i find him fascinating and very smart but for all of his black meme magic he was 100% wrong on trump

humans remain mysterious

fucking retarded yes

but still mysterious

>> No.8911164

>>8911154
>dunjin muster
i stopped reading your FB post right there

we're not on FB here. it's not kanses anymore

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>>8911075
this fucking face. how could anyone trust anything that came from this face? i don't know how he manages to say anything at all without bursting out laughing in the middle of it just out of how completely absurd he looks and sounds. listening to him give speeches during the campaign was like watching an SNL skit come to life

and he was trump's toughest opponent

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>>8911164
>dungeon mustard

it's just an analogy ya big dingus

but i am ashamed to be judged FB-tier. i shall train more diligently in chanfu

also happy new year to all you schizolupic break-outs. i love you guys

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>>8911075
>>8911165
>I am infinitely more afraid of people like Ted Cruz. Trump is a vulgar opportunist. Cruz is a monster. Do you think Ted Cruz is human?

>> No.8911944

>>8911934
lol he said that?

>> No.8912046

>>8911165
He had the hahvad Alan Dershowitz seal of approval. That's all you need when you truly believe that salvation is of the nattering nabobs of negativity.

>> No.8912195

All i know about Land is that he wants to replace humans with malicious AI or something.

>> No.8912888

>>8905862
punchable face asf

>> No.8912932

>>8906232
I read this post last night while drunk and not a single word of it made sense. It was just word salad. Now it somehow does make sense. Alcohol does not help me think. I wonder why writers swear by it as they do. Maybe I just drank too much. I know that after about two drinks I feel somehow sharper. I'll try that next time.