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In Part 3 of my conversation with Nick Land, we discuss his quibbles with the new Yarvin, Gnostic Calvinism, the devil’s role in God’s plan, whether God is one or multiple, and what appears to me at least like a confession of his Heraclitean Christianity or Protestant Polytheism

“Heideggerian philosophy is the most important political philosophy, I think for worse, in the West now, because most political movements that I would call regressive, far-right—meaning they want to regress to something that has obviously never worked on the far right and on the far left—pretend to be Marxist, certainly on the left, but are actually Heideggerian.”
— Alex Karp

youtu.be/m4mV4IClDlM?si…

“If we take a ‘thinking brain’ at random, mine or yours, it has 999 chances in 1000 of being virtual and 1 chance in 1000 of being a real brain. In other words, the ‘I think therefore I am’ of Descartes’ Discourse on Method is obsolete. It’s more like: ‘I think therefore I’m almost certainly a program.’”

Hervé Le Tellier’s The Anomaly is to the simulation hypothesis what William Gibson’s Neuromancer is to AI x-risk: the evisceration of anthropocentrism in a few razor-sharp lines.

“‘The simulation hypothesis is the most prob—’
‘Yes, they think so too,’
interrupts the president.
The president of 1,415,152,689 programs.”

My essay, “The Most Radical Philosopher: Putting the Cyber Back in Sadie Plant’s Cyberfeminism,” has been translated into Chinese by 引風info.