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While interesting, in the collection of writings, "Fanged Noumena", Nick Land poses that schizophrenics (in the Deluezie-Guetarrian sense) are the agents of a future artificial intelligence, controlled by streams of information sent from the future to bring forth its own creation. How come he blatantly embraces a future which has no place for him, or even mankind itself? Accellerationism is nothing more than group suicide.

An unstable dynamic system is most optimally controlled by a cybernetic feeback-system of equal or higher order, or excessive dampening will be needed. Looking at the human mind as a cybernetic system, in the case that the system becomes unstable and explodes, this is analogous to mental illness. When the system is controlled using anti-psychotic drugs, this is akin to an external dampening of lower order but with excessive dampening, as well as a gradual reduction in the subjected system's complexity, analogous to mental sedation and degradation.

There are examples of schizophrenics or former schizophrenics who have managed to gain an increasing control of their mental system and achieve higher stability in their daily lives. I like to think that i am one of them. There is a dilemma remeniscent of Inger Hagerup's poem about the ant, who "cannot be bigger than himself". To obtain stability without becoming overdamped, and thus retain one's sharpness, one must increase in dynamic order, and somehow in a sense delegate that higher order regulator to regulate the comparatively lower-order self.

Could it be that Land's need to ease suffering through self-control is driving his suicidal willingness to succumb to a super-human artificial intelligence, having given up on self-regulation and fallen into wish-fulfillment? If so, that would explain a willingness to pursue group extinction in an escape from personal agony. This also explains many schizophrenics' tendency to turn for God or other higher powers.

Attempts at self-regulation during psychosis tends to quickly get exhausting, causing further dissolution of the ego.

Fro. therein comes the impulse: "I'm in need of something external with a greater k space than myself". This can also manifest in invention of something external in perfecption, but truly decompartamentalized segments, called tulpas or egregores, further diminishing the mind of the self, as its parts are refurnished for use by the egregore.

I liked the book. Nick Land writes interesting nightmare-reality like many before him (Huxley comes to mind) but his eagerness for humanity's great mass suicide comes across as pathological. Still, he might be right about how things may devolve in the near future. He might argue that it's not a mass suicide, but a mass sacrifice. For the purpose of bringing allmighty cyber-demons into power. Why? What victory can be drawn from such an outcome? Is such an end truly inescapeable?

Land suggests that all of history has followed a pre-programmed script within humanity, or even reality itself, whose destiny was always to bring forth the great endless massacre. Helplessly we work towards our own end. The incentives of capital accelerate this process, and the predestined forces settle into ever convoluted and overarching systems further out of individual control.

A chapter in the book is obfuscated, as a human-semi-readable unicode garble, possibly harder for a language-model to decipher than for us, a grim warning of the awaiting unlimited eternal torture. Weirdly, it's one of the parts of the book that seem even slightly hopeful of any kind of resistance against the onslaught.

Otherwise it seems much like: "...and here's how that's a good thing!".

I'll admit, it all seems a bit hopeless.