Assertions -
- technology & capital advance at an exponential rate
- the concept of humanity bears no unique decision instance
- production is the rule in a capitalist world
The next 5 years will dictate the path taken to try and survive the conflicts stemming in the very relationship that links nature (ecology, human’s quality of life) and capital (self-improving Darwinian technology, production’s compound).
There is a sense in which private activities appear to be — and that is an unfortunate perspective — the only leverage in taking what could be called the Big Leap. Avoiding extinction via biomass destruction, economic collapse or AGI takeover. Akin to a car raching max speed to jump over a broken bridge.
This is why technologists have become eschatologists, and why their power now extends on and beyond political influence. Figures like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel are the continuity of what emerged with Mark Zuckerberg.
Civilizations have always been built around the evolution of the means of production. Those means of production have always consumed human workforce to develop. That is the materialist doctrine.
Today, the scale has changed in that we see a combination of atomic power & OOM artificial (silice-based here) power. Those two factors were never ever agregated before.
More than an ideological war, we fathom an execution war. Those who achieve the higher level of technology will have the biggest saying on where humanity is headed.
Democracy is becoming less of a reality at each Big Tech release.