Silicon Valley's Favorite Doomsaying Philosopher

(newyorker.com)

4 points | by mitchbob 10 hours ago ago

2 comments

  • mitchbob 10 hours ago ago

    > Nick Land believes that digital superintelligence is going to kill us all. In San Francisco, his followers ask: What if, instead of trying to stop an A.I. takeover, you work to bring it on as fast as possible?

    https://archive.ph/bUnGB

  • bananamogul 9 hours ago ago

    > at a conference in 1996, he lay on the floor, reciting cut-up poetry in what an attendee described as a “demon voice” while jungle music played in the background

    I'm out.