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But with ACI, it would occur on an unprecedented scale: each agent with its own ability to consult, analyze, and communicate its perspective on the sum total of human knowledge. At lightning speed, this perspective gets checked by the perspective of a potentially unlimited number of other agents engaged in the same process. It is difficult not to see this as the AI breakthrough of the future.
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On his blog, he once joked about converting San Francisco’s underclasses into biodiesel to power the city’s buses. Then he suggested another idea: putting them in solitary confinement, hooked up to a virtual-reality interface. Whatever the exact solution, he has written, it is crucial to find “a humane alternative to genocide,” an outcome that “achieves the same result as mass murder (the removal of undesirable elements from society) but without any of the moral stigma.”
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America | The New Yorker
Ava Kofman
The sharpened carnage of Israel’s anaesthetic violence circulates most profusely through a panoply of digital technologies, carrying the colonial project forward by bringing ever more networked waves of ruin down upon the colonized. Israel prides itself on its advanced surveillance technologies, which aspire to document and informatically capture each and every particle of the territories it occupies, aiming to informatically integrate and thus *make sense* of what it desolates within its colonial apparatuses.
Anaesthetic Violence
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