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Accelerationists Fingered in White House Drone Attack Plot

There is nothing like a terror plot, foiled or otherwise, to bring an obscure concept like “accelerationism” to public attention

If strategy is more important than ideology for accelerationists, that is probably because their aims are incoherent and their groups fragment easily.

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Future? There Is No Human Future, Dude… and That’s Good!

A look at the other face of the claims that we are approaching an AI singularity

Lê’s essay offers a much more sober assessment of transhumanism, the war on human exceptionalism, and the idea that machines think like people.

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