04 / September 29
A Pervasive Global Cognitive Automaton
“Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth?”
— Open letter from tech CEOs suggesting an AI moratorium
Topics
Planetary computation: platform, stack, model, machine; Charles Stross’ “very slow AIs”; Trapwire, Predpol, Palantir, and pernicious feedback loops; memesis, thought contagion, and stochastic terror; Foxacid, Quantumsquirrel, Weeping Angel; Lyotard’s Libidinal Economy v. Tiqqun’s Cybernetic Hypothesis; Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism
Readings
Additional Reading
Lab
Copilot, Cursor, encapsulation