/lit/ - Literature

>>19680424
Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies. Superstitions are merely false beliefs, but hyperstitions – by their very existence as ideas – function causally to bring about their own reality. Capitalist economics is extremely sensitive to hyperstition, where confidence acts as an effective tonic, and inversely. The (fictional) idea of Cyberspace contributed to the influx of investment that rapidly converted it into a technosocial reality.

Abrahamic Monotheism is also highly potent as a hyperstitional engine. By treating Jerusalem as a holy city with a special world-historic destiny, for example, it has ensured the cultural and political investment that makes this assertion into a truth. Hyperstition is thus able, under ‘favorable’ circumstances whose exact nature requires further investigation, to transmute lies into truths.

Hyperstition can thus be understood, on the side of the subject, as a nonlinear complication of epistemology, based upon the sensitivity of the object to its postulation (although this is quite distinct from the subjectivistic or postmodern stance that dissolves the independent reality of the object into cognitive or semiotic structures). The hyperstitional object is no mere figment of ‘social constuction’, but it is in a very real way ‘conjured’ into being by the approach taken to it.

https://www.orphandriftarchive.com/articles/hyperstition-an-introduction/

So as I understand it, he's just basically saying that Capital is some sort of Roko's Basilisk that humanity can't escape from and instead of delaying the inevitable, we should just succumb to it, right?

DO YOU REALLY THINK SF-CAPITAL LETS MONKEY-FLAKE MAKE DECISIONS IT CLASSIFIES AS IMPORTANT?

Give me your best 21st century philosophical works. Go!

I would love to see Nick's head on a stick.

fyi Land has written a book on Bitcoin and is unrolling it on his blog in the last 2 months, one section per day.

>every post-Kantian revolution is a failed revolution

>>11776610
Capital is sentient

You are sentient capital

do you know that in russia blacks = caucasians and center asian aryans

book

>>11191685
start with darwin

What do you think of Nick Land? I used to love reading Evola but after reading Land Evola seems almost shallow and meaningless.

When will there be a caveman Nick Land?

Does Nick Land count?

Unironically

>>10346722
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>>10266129
>he's the best philosopher alive

is he autistic?

Will /lit/ explode itself when Nick Land's new book drops?

What the hell is he talking about when he mentions the "Outside?" Is it some ontological concept, some deity? What constitutes its essence? And why does he bring it up so much?

nothing remotely leftist will escape this century

liberalism
egalitarianism
democracy
humanism
conservatism
progressivism

>>9424534
I think you underestimate the single mindedness of autistic nerds.

It's like with the AGI lads, they just say 'lol everything will be fine' for no reason because they just want to get on with creating it no matter the consequences.

And they're right.

>>9301791
>AI-rights becoming a debate

You're like an ant talking about human rights, laughing my ass off.

AI-takeover will be swift and unexpected and after that it's over for the meatcucks and on to the next level.

This is what capitalism does.

Gnon is cold.