In #technofeudalism and #antihumanism:

The narrative of #AI's “inevitability” is a tactic used by tech companies to discourage resistance and encourage compliance.

[…] When tech boosters want to demonise resistance, they invoke the luddites. By their telling, the luddites were primitive idiots, who smashed machines they were too stupid to understand. History though, tells a different story. As recounted by Brian Merchant’s sublime work Blood in the Machine, luddites were skilled artisans, fighting for their way of life against the “satanic mills” – textile sweatshops powered by child semi-slaves. Forbidden from unionising, luddites smashed machines as a protest tactic. And they did not lose to the inevitable march of progress. They lost to physical force. The government called in troops, and the luddites were either executed or shipped to penal colonies in Australia.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/12/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history

#technofeudalism #antihumanism #ai #promptingwithhitler #nerdreich #llm #theaicon #aihype #histodons

Is AI the greatest art heist in history?

New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it

The Guardian

#AntiRealityOpera #ArtificialIntelligence #Anal1810
#ArtIntelOpera /\ #MediaEcologyWakingUp

The wealth invested in machine intelligence at the same time Putin and Trump are #AntiEmpathy #AntiCompassion #AntiHumanism

Human beings are being abandoned by humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Ctc7ZC23A

AI Is Now The Biggest Bet In Human History ⚡️

YouTube

#FWakeMentalHealth #FWakeTherapy #Therapy #MentalHealth
#AntiHumanism #TrendingTowardsDehuman

Trending social machine training of "Harm yourself" Donald Trump values. Elon Musk won, Surkov won, Russia won.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfEJ4DbjZYg

Ai ‘Therapist’ Told me to KΙLL (Age-Restricted)

YouTube

Repost of one of the greatest philosophical memes I've ever come across:

#philosophy #philosophymemes #stirner #maxstirner #egoism #deleuze #bodywithoutorgans #antihumanism #anarchism #anarchistmemes

The End Is Only the Beginning - The American Scholar

Our species may soon evolve, with the help of technology, into something more than human

The American Scholar
Mark O'Connell in the 4/20 #NYRB on varieties of #antihumanism kills it. For ex., on David Benatar's assertion that life is always so bad, we'd be better off dead: "For instance: 'How often does one feel neither too hot nor too cold, but exactly right?' As of this writing, I will grudgingly concede that the room I am sitting in is a little on the chilly side, but not to the extent that I'm ready to succumb to cosmic pessimism; I can always put on a sweater." (40, 42)
#quote #reading

I never, EVER, want a website to send me notifications.

Ever.

#WebDev #BadWebsiteBad #DarkDesign #AntiHumanism

Very good article on #Anthropocene #AntiHumanism and #TransHumanism

I don't subscribe to either philosophy, though I'm much more opposed to transhumanism than antihumanism. I believe TH makes the categorical error of lionising individual egos in the same way as the #Christian idea of a heavenly afterlife

I'n not #AntiHumanist though. I'd rather we scaled back human effects on earth & learned to live with nature but not go extinct

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/anthropocene-anti-humanism-transhumanism-apocalypse-predictions/672230/

The People Cheering for Humanity’s End

A disparate group of thinkers says we should welcome our demise.

The Atlantic

This piece glosses over the ethical problems of the ideas it presents, but they're hinted at. #transhumanism #longtermism #extinction #antihumanism

"The revolt against humanity is a real and significant phenomenon, even if it is “just” an idea and its predictions of a future without us never come true... It is a spiritual development of the first order, a new way of making sense of the nature and purpose of human existence."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/anthropocene-anti-humanism-transhumanism-apocalypse-predictions/672230/

The People Cheering for Humanity’s End

A disparate group of thinkers says we should welcome our demise.

The Atlantic