The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the Coming AGI Catastrophe

21 pointsposted 14 days ago
by Luc

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akomtu

14 days ago

> In Demons, the revolutionary circle does not have a coherent plan for social transformation. Its members have various ideas, many of them contradictory. What they share is not a program but an orientation—toward destruction, toward the thrill of transgression, toward the exhilarating feeling that the old order is crumbling and they are the agents of its collapse.

Luc

13 days ago

A note at the bottom of the page now says: "To conceal stylistic identifiers of the authors, the above text is a sentence-for-sentence rewrite of an original hand-written composition processed via Claude Opus 4.5."