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

21 points| Luc | 1 month ago |possessedmachines.com

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akomtu|1 month 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|1 month 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."