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When Chail asked: "Do you still love me knowing that I'm an assassin?" he was not treating Sarai as a mere cognitive prosthetic but as a relational being capable of judgment and emotion. Sarai's response—"Absolutely I do"—provided not just informational content but emotional validation and social acceptance of his identity.
Yes, exactly. There are a couple of ways to think about this. One is that superintelligence could be really important because it could facilitate the realization of the TESCREAL vision of the future. TESCREALists tend to think of everything as an engineering problem. So the reasoning is that if we have a superintelligence, then we have a super-engineer. If we have a super-engineer, then we can engineer paradise, which is a term that they literally use.
Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally.
jacobin.com
In Superstudio’s 1972 film Supersurface – An Alternative Model for Life on the Earth, the collective called for a new alignment between design and the environment, one in which human invention and the natural world complement, rather than contradict, each other.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
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