Why AI Is Not the Only Risk We Face




The effective accelerationist(e/acc) crowd on 𝕏, which seems to be steadily growing, is focused solely on one kind of singularity: a techno-capital singularity. This is a singularity that’s slightly different from the concept mathematician John von Neumann proposed in the 1950s.

Before we proceed, let’s define what a singularity really is. Mathematically, it’s a point at which an equation becomes undefined or behaves unusually. In other words, it’s a point at which an equation breaks down and becomes unusable.

A techno-capital singularity includes both technology and economics in the equation. As suggested in Nick Land’s text Meltdown, this is a singularity where techno-economic progress destroys the current social order and fundamentally changes politics. He goes on to suggest that the biosphere is going to be turned into a technosphere but that, I assume, is merely a conjecture because, by definition, one cannot see what happens after a singularity.