Short to the point: there seem to be a divide between AI criticism and AI “accelerationists.”

The divide being that on one side “they get it”, on the other they don’t. But what?

Let’s say that the part that AI critics “get” is that the math doesn’t make sense, and it’s all a bubble, and it’s all gonna blow up soon. This thesis assumes the “other side” “doesn’t get it”. That they are blind. They do not see the problem. They refuse to see or see infinite growth.

But what if they do see the problem? What if this high ground vision is THE gamble.

Considering this discourse about the bubble is all over the place, you can assume the other side acknowledges and acknowledged it, long ago.

This is where I see things different than, I suppose, everyone else. What if they are actually well aware of the risks, but are actively maneuvering for THAT reason, rather than blissfully ignoring it. What if their hand is precisely hidden because they want everyone to focus on this “bubble” and its very obvious risk, while they gamble on a different game? When they wage war at a critical point that is left completely undefended?

As with heuristics, we keep observing and predicting what comes next, by using data coming from the past. “It only follows.”

My point is that they aren’t trying to play within the known rules: the goal is rewriting those rules, therefore taking control of the rules themselves. The attack point is ABOVE, in respect to where everyone expects the attack to be.

My point is that the link between AI and fascism isn’t merely opportunist selfishness, but a path that is naturally fascist in taking control not of “power”, but of the system that allocates that power. Of reality-rewriting kind of deal through force and manipulation. To make wishes true by controlling the frame itself, not objects within.

The economy is this big heuristics we take for granted. Some objective reality whose rules you can’t escape. A dictator of objectivity. These AI companies lose money, it’s an inescapable fact.

What if the fascists want to take control of the economy, not as a form of sheer power, but control of the rules. Of PRE-EMPTING those rules. To “come before” every regulatory system by manipulating perception. Of what you see and goes unquestioned.

We keep tracking these things through rules and patterns. Previous data, previous bubbles, previous systems. Because that’s all the knowledge we have. Expecting these fascists to play by the rules, somehow. Who’s “not getting it”, really?

What if the fascists want to preempt this whole system? To shut down the system of rules, from within. Once for all. All the while all of us are distracted tracking a trajectory of something that has been hijacked a long time ago. Expecting that objective reality is still worth something within this new system. Measuring the new with the old, and coming short. Because this threat is being underrated.