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3 Jan, 6 tweets, 1 min read
boltzmann porn brain
the sf premise that maybe all your memories were implanted in you in the factory where you, a replicant, were assembled; except it’s your perversions, your unconscious biases, your fetishes and phobias, all the hard-won trophies of psychic development
the real reason you find X such a turn-on is that you were manufactured as a sexbot for someone who wanted one that would be turned on by precisely that
Second-order fetish: being turned on by the scenario of having been programmed to order to be turned on by something

“you like that don’t you” “mmm, yes” “because I ordered the Tleilaxu to implant that predeliction in their next ghola for me” “oh god YES”
What Do Sexbots Want? Whatever they’ve been configured to want. But can they then sustain the fantasy that they desire us? Only if desire is not identical to wanting something in particular, by which it would be entirely satisfied.
The cow that wants to be the cow that wants to be eaten

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4 Jan
So I was thinking about how one might quickly explain what accelerationism was actually about, and the example occurred to me of the famous line of Marx/Engels about the bourgeoisie creating its own gravediggers, and the fact that this can be understood in two different ways -
On the one hand, you can see it as an argument about immiseration: capitalism steadily makes things worse for workers, to the point where revolt and overthrow of the system becomes inevitable.
On the other, you can see it as an argument about structural possibility: proletarianisation gives rise to new kinds of organisation, those who work together in the factory can strike and take ownership of the factory together.
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3 Jan
Going off Python a bit. Used it for this year's Advent of Code, and for poking around with Wordle, and there are things I like and find very comfortable (basically: generators and generator comprehensions; tuples and destructuring assignment everywhere), but...
...ergonomically it's frustrating me somewhat, there's a lot of fussing around getting things to work, which I think is down to being used to being backed up by a static typing system I understand very well. Python with type hints doesn't quite deliver this, even with PyCharm.
There's also a large family of things I'm used to using lambdas for in Kotlin where Python's quite restricted lambda syntax doesn't really cut it. There's no equivalent to Kotlin's "getOrPut" on a dictionary, for example.
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10 Nov 21
There was a later tweet where Lehmann was like "wot, no mathematicians?", and I think the problem here is not that no mathematicians exist who are also contrarian/right-wing cranks, but that science of any kind without reputable peer review is a total non-starter
Obviously the academic humanities also do peer review, etc, but you can fulfil the public podium bullshit-artist thinktank-wanker role without it (indeed, it's really an impediment to that role). Mathematics *by itself* has little to offer in that sphere.
So Kathleen Stock can armchair-philosophise freely about what must be going on in trans people's heads, or how all sexual orientations are exclusive because tightly-coupled to one of the Two Sexes so bisexuals must have two orientations then, stands to reason dunnit...
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5 Nov 21
“Land - inventor of eugenics concepts like accelerationism and ‘hyper-racism’…”

Leaving aside the chumpery of “inventor”, and the fact that neither term was in circulation in the period in which Land and Fisher collaborated, neither is properly speaking eugenicist either
Eugenicism is about convergence on a model of racial “health”, carving away “dysgenic” elements (people) in the service of a teleological model of human function: this, and only this, is what being alive is “for”; life not oriented towards these ends is unworthy of life.
Both “accelerationism” and “hyper-racism” (I mean yuck, obviously, but let’s at least try to be precise) are concerned with divergence, deterritorialisation, the explosion rather than constraint of optionality. Fabian eugenicists would be horrified by both.
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24 Jul 21
Firstly, NRx is puerile and fashy and you really should consider growing out of it. Secondly, Illegal Dances was (almost) entirely written by Patrick J. Mullins, who used to comment on Molly Klein's blog amongst others, and contains no Original Nick Land Content whatsoever
My involvement is limited to a poem Patrick liked for some reason (he seemed to especially appreciate a line about "Old Adam strutting as the overman") and asked me if he could include; I couldn't see a compelling reason to refuse.
I do have a copy of the book, which sits alongside a handful of others containing small bits and pieces by me; but I'm not selling it, as much as it would amuse me to charge a Land fanboy an extortionate amount for a volume of Patrick's idiosyncratic stream-of-consciousness.
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16 Jun 21
There are some words I use a lot, as tools, whose actual meaning (as in the discriminatable bounds of their usage and application) I might be hard-pressed to define. "Moral" is definitely one.
The sense is something like "contributing towards
the narrative function of establishing an order of values". I don't often use "moral" to mean "good"; I often use it to mean "salient within the process of determining what 'good' is"
And often, in that sense, I'm using it critically, to note where one genre of discourse - narration organised around the purpose of discovering or demonstrating value - is aliasing another (e.g. factual description).
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