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On Immortality and Prophecy – Continuing Discussion on AI

Posted on May 31, 2023May 31, 2023 By Nicolas Villarreal No Comments on On Immortality and Prophecy – Continuing Discussion on AI

In previous essays on AI, I have referred back to the concept of the soul, and its secularized form in the subject. I have done this to drive home precisely how new AI technologies will shape our own souls, as well as briefly sketch how we might approach the process of creating artificial subjects [souls] as a creative…

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Against Butlerian Jihad – A Response to Simon McNeil

Posted on May 30, 2023May 30, 2023 By Nicolas Villarreal No Comments on Against Butlerian Jihad – A Response to Simon McNeil

In a recent essay on Artificial Intelligence (AI) I put together for Cosmonaut Magazine, I discussed a wide range of topics on how Marxists should come to understand these new technologies, but one of the things I didn’t directly discuss was the question of Butlerian Jihad, made famous by the scifi novel series Dune and which…

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Capital, Capitalization, and Capitalists

Posted on October 28, 2022October 28, 2022 By Nicolas Villarreal No Comments on Capital, Capitalization, and Capitalists

A Critique of Capital as Power Theory Financial capital is a spectacular thing, in the most literal sense. The financial press, 24/7 finance news, the incredible opulence and respect afforded to big financial investors, are proof enough of this. There are fabulous sums involved, trillions and trillions of dollars of financial instruments like derivatives, stocks…

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An introduction to Surplus Statism

Posted on September 25, 2022September 25, 2022 By Jake 2 Comments on An introduction to Surplus Statism

Surplus Statism is an ideology that is very syncretic in nature and uses arms-length bodies and a transparent surveillance state to eliminate corruption arising from conflicts of interests. While the Surplus State is operated by a single party, this party is divided into two separate groups: the Inner Party and the Outer Party. While the…

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The Social Architecture Model, now with fixed capital

Posted on August 19, 2022August 19, 2022 By Nicolas Villarreal No Comments on The Social Architecture Model, now with fixed capital

This post originally appeared on my substack. I’ve been vocal that I believe that the field of classical econophysics, which has its roots in the works of Marxist economists bringing statistical mechanics into economics, is on the true cutting edge of economics today. Unlike the emphasis of neoclassical economics, with its insistence on its foundation…

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Reply to Jehu on the Mass of Profit 2

Posted on August 19, 2022August 19, 2022 By Nicolas Villarreal No Comments on Reply to Jehu on the Mass of Profit 2

This post originally appeared on my substack. I was just recently made aware of another reply in an ongoing conversation with the Marxist blogger Jehu, you can read the conversation in order here: 1 2 3 4 To recap, Jehu insists that our estimates of the rate of profit and the mass of profit are all misleading because they…

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On the rate of interest and oil shocks

Posted on August 19, 2022August 19, 2022 By Nicolas Villarreal No Comments on On the rate of interest and oil shocks

This post originally appeared on my substack. Whenever one reads the business press, such as Bloomberg or the Financial Times, every piece of news is implicitly framed about how it might impact the rate of interest, which, for the bourgeoisie, may as well be the price of milk or bread. The working class, of course,…

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The Secular Rate of Profit

Posted on August 19, 2022August 19, 2022 By Nicolas Villarreal 1 Comment on The Secular Rate of Profit

This post originally appeared on my substack. Recently I’ve come to realize that I should summarize much of my recent work on the implications of the current tendencies of the rate of profit into one place. Previously, I’ve written about the cyclical aspect of the rate of profit, as well as how simulating it can show its various possible…

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A Response to Jehu on the Mass of Profit

Posted on August 19, 2022August 19, 2022 By Nicolas Villarreal No Comments on A Response to Jehu on the Mass of Profit

This post originally appeared on my substack. Recently, I received a response to my blog about the secular rate of profit by Jehu, one of the more interesting Marxists operating online today. While I think that certain of his fixations, specifically on gold as a measure of value, are somewhat illogical, he has one of the most…

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A Defense of Cybernetic Planning and Social Reproduction Theory from the Reactionary Tendencies of Paul Cockshott

Posted on August 19, 2022August 19, 2022 By Nicolas Villarreal 2 Comments on A Defense of Cybernetic Planning and Social Reproduction Theory from the Reactionary Tendencies of Paul Cockshott

This post originally appeared on my substack. Science is a process which is decentering of the subject, moving beyond it in order to come to terms with objects as they relate to each other. It is only by whack-a-moling the subject as it appears in objects do we make scientific progress. Science, just as ideological…

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