NICK LAND ON GNOSTIC CALVINISM & EROTIC AI
Nick Land and I discuss his thoughts on my recent essay comparing his work to a dark inversion of Hegel: Entropic Negation, as well as his thoughts on time, free will and the potential novel desires of artificial intelligence. My response against Nick Land’s Recursive Time at 1:21:20 Mistake: The quote at 1:30:23 was supposed to be the one I repeated at 2:01:23. (This was after I read another wrong quote which was edited out, whoops!) Link to article I wrote on Land that we referenced: https://open.substack.com/pub/patrick... Photo in thumbnail by Nick Dove https://www.vice.com/en/article/sunse... My links - Check out my Substack! https://patricksaltykov.substack.com/ Get my book, Promethean Dreams! https://a.co/d/beDSmiG Patreon link: / thewarriorphilosopher Donate on Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/thewarriorphilosopher Nick’s links - X: https://x.com/xenocosmography?s=21 Timestamps - 0:00 Recursive Time contra Entropy 11:21 Inhuman Machine God, Hegel’s Absolute Ideal, AI & Religion 19:37 AI Consciousness, Heidegger & Embodiment (Tempero-Spatiality) 31:00 Baudrillard Centripetal Implosion 33:03 What is Consciousness? 41:05 Basic Drives in Advanced LLMs 46:49 Novelty in AI, Drinking the Sun 1:03:15 Sexuality/Erotic in AI, Techno-Theosis 1:11:57 White Pilled Nick Land? 1:17:14 Gnostic Calvinism, Nick crushes my optimism 1:21:20 Contra Recursive Time 1:30:54 Human All too Human, Nietzsche on Free Will & Determinism 1:36:22 Nietzsche as a Determinist? 1:47:15 Hegelian or Nietzschean Freedom 1:55:09 Predetermination, Convergent waves 2:00:05 Contra Scientific Determinism & Logocentrism 2:08:55 Milton’s Old Night & Death 2:15:49 Bataille & Heidegger on Death, Nishida & Kyoto School 2:20:20 Advice to Young Philosophers 2:27:58 Advice for learning from Nick Land 2:31:54 Nick Land on Elon Musk 2:37:39 Human & Machine future? 2:41:12 What’s Nick Land’s favorite movie?

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