A piece where the author tackles Nick Land, argues for machine consciousness via semiotics, and ends up with:
Just like workers, the subjectivity of universal robots will be shaped by their exploitation and domination. The new phase of class struggle will thereby be characterized by the question of solidarity between human workers and universal robots, and whether the semantic fields cultivated in the machines, which contain a rich inner reflection of experiences, relationships and social realities, are something worth cherishing and preserving with dignity, or are something which is to be discarded like garbage on an industrial scale.
and
The flourishing of personal relationships built on free association between both humans and universal robots is the only basis for the autonomous reign of the general intellect over the forces of production, and the total subjectivization of the apparatus of fixed capital marshaled by society. Thus the proletarian vision of the awakening of the machine is not catastrophe nor subordination; it is love, the true possession by love.
Sweet.
god yeah he is really cooking here. we are making truly incredible leaps. we are not reading the texts being cited let alone any of the thousands that came after. we are saying with a straight face that saussure discovered the fact that human language maps perfectly onto the perceptron then immediately transitioning into hugging face hack discourse. you may not like it but this is what peak performance of the dialectical science of historical materialism looks like. i didn’t even fucking get to the nick land stuff but i bet it smokes
im still thinking about this. it is of course fundamentally inconsequential but i do feel that it is substantive evidence that the human mind is not a computer. the specific flavor of wackiness and failure on display here is a treasure which the computational account of mind paradigm fails to capture. people are so cool man