Prophecy in GR: Gus Mitchell on Pynchon

[Martin Dietze]

Very worthwhlie longread. A snippet:

The dream of transcendence, assuming that the only way out of the grinding
> mechanism of technology and capitalist momentum is to go *through* them,
> is the pretext for the ruthless disruption that continues to define our
> precarious present, most recently evident in tech oligarchs’ transhumanist
> aspiration to immortality in the machinic Singularity. But increasingly,
> Pökler’s twisted utopianism looks somewhat quaint. In one of the most
> impressively blackpilled recent pronouncements of the tech industry, the
> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated in relation to ChatGPT’s rollout: “AI will
> probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime,
> there’ll be great companies.”
>

https://compactmag.com/article/pynchon-s-prophecy

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