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Originally Posted by dead_battery

that's why i like parts of accelerationism, because it gets around this problem by saying that technology is also subject to darwinian impulses, and it's literally using us to bring itself into existence.

i don't think this is particularly unrealistic. those dinosaurs and plants that became the oil our cars use - that's a real process. obviously we're part of a similar process.

it's all information vs. increasing entropy so of course it is subject to selective pressure. there are not "impulses" though, much less from within--that would be buffonian not darwinian.