He’s an accelerationist to the core, which is in some senses a “beyond left and right” political position, but which demands lib-right short term politics to take the guard-rails off of the “accelerationist project”. That said, his “peers” are dark enlightenment totalitarians who want nothing more than to bend the accelerationist project towards permanent technofeudalism and he doesn’t seem much inclined to oppose them, and so is a de-facto collaborator. He may genuinely believe that Superintelligence will be inherently and inevitably benevolent because that is the “logical” position, and so getting there as fast as possible will diffuse the monarchist machinations of the rest, but it’s hard to believe he is naive to the strong potential of alternative outcomes more like Brave New World than The Culture. Being de facto far right is about as bad as being fervently far right for the masses of the present moment.
He’s an accelerationist to the core, which is in some senses a “beyond left and right” political position, but which demands lib-right short term politics to take the guard-rails off of the “accelerationist project”. That said, his “peers” are dark enlightenment totalitarians who want nothing more than to bend the accelerationist project towards permanent technofeudalism and he doesn’t seem much inclined to oppose them, and so is a de-facto collaborator. He may genuinely believe that Superintelligence will be inherently and inevitably benevolent because that is the “logical” position, and so getting there as fast as possible will diffuse the monarchist machinations of the rest, but it’s hard to believe he is naive to the strong potential of alternative outcomes more like Brave New World than The Culture. Being de facto far right is about as bad as being fervently far right for the masses of the present moment.