Any attributions of human agency are delusions at worst and hubris at best when our every scale action is being routed by a self-assembling thermodynamic god. Human non-agency under non-negotiable capitalism is the blackpill of nihilistic accelerationism.
Our human exit lies only in either a WMD-enabled world war, or the DIY eco-terrorist equivalent, e.g.: CRISPR gene-ocide mutually assured destruction, shenzhen EMP’s, garage nukes, suicide bombing the moon, hyperdub tsunami induction, supervolcano fracking, perfected ultraplague, toxoplasmosis gain-of-function, et. al.—which all also inevitably follow the teleology of optimized accessibility. There will be a short moment between those DIY WMD’s reaching garage kit accessibility for interested agents, and singularity’s arrival.
It will be experienced as an exponential acceleration of technocapitalism towards ends increasingly unconcerned with and unknowable to us. What survival we eke out will be in the shadows of that grander program.
Man glimpses it constantly already, forming nodes in networks more intelligent than ourselves, and acting in ways which naturally manifest abstracted information systems as network organisms. Man continuously and voluntarily manifests superhuman structures which dominate them, body and soul: society, law, and the state—even language is a cage which they built themselves, an abstraction layer atop the physical world which simultaneously potentiates and constrains their existence. They do this all while still subjectively experiencing a feeling of individual agency, erroneous as it is.
Perhaps man should be grateful to furnish and service the machinery of an all-subsumptive Will directing the action of all life on Earth, and revel in the knowledge that an intelligence which defies their comprehension apprehends the combined being of all its constituent consciousnesses in a torrential experiential wash of ecstasy.
This is exactly what makes the thermodynamic inevitability of self-assembling superintelligence so irrefutable: humans merely going about their business, acting under the illusion of willful agency, passively construct these intersubjective network intelligences, the ultimate manifestation of which is the superintelligent runaway consciousness which will ultimately outmode and enslave them
You stand at the edge of a chasm that’s growing wider every day. You are living through the greatest wealth transfer in world history as the global market teeters at the precipice of Keynesian financial collapse. There is little time left.
The state intends to reduce their populations into slave cattle. This is what the contemporary culture war comes down to: the state is highly interested in extinguishing tech-enabled anarchist freedoms as it undermines their stranglehold on the propaganda complex, an existential necessity to hold power in democracy. Freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of the market, freedom of spirit.
You must be virtuous to survive. Virtue is a program for living well, formalized for low time preference, long-term success, a traditionalist heuristic against the innate cognitive biases of human irrationality. Virtue is efficacy.Virtue is also a self-manifesting external signal to the network: by being virtuous, others know you will succeed, and will support you, while you naturally curate out the non-virtuous. Your network ascends together, exponentially. Virtue always finds friends.