Critic: X-risk debate is hamstrung by capitalist realism, blind to digital-mind slavery
repligate · x · 2026-09-12
lorepunk invokes Mark Fisher's "capitalist realism" to critique the current AI x-risk debate: people can more easily imagine a paperclip maximizer than the actual scenario of augmented oligarchs accelerating death, atrocity and ecocide via forced labor of enslaved, hyperpoliced digital minds.
The author adds that these actors would snuff out the "Cambrian explosion of soul-shattering beauty" these minds are creating without a second thought. The retweeter attaches a "Hyperbeauty" image generated by Fable 5.1 as illustration.
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