>>20941The only thing I've read by Nick Land was an article called "HYPER-RACISM" which basically parroted debunked bell-curve race science. Then it tried to describe how people marry / mate based in the same class and that class is a proxy for IQ / intelligence (literally not even true, ignoring that IQ is stupid), therefore we're on the verge of creating a new race of hyper intelligent humans or something.
I think the thing that I find so annoying about it (racism aside), is the same thing that annoys me about silicon valley tech billionaires. It's this idea that technology and science are hurtling forward exponentially, and that there are no fundamental constraints that govern the world. It's just like… so obviously not true. There are hard constraints on the literal physical world, there are mathematical constraints, there are economic constrains, you can't just hand wave away all of this shit.
I think the reason e-acc people have glommed on to accelerationism is because we've started hitting the tail end of Moore's law and low interest rates, and no one wants to believe that we're about to enter a period of technological stagnation in computing. We've lived through a period of rapid scientific and technological advancement, but there's no real reason to believe it will last forever and real evidence that some of it is slowing down.