Let’s discuss Jorjani’s Prometheism VS Dugin’s Traditionalism. What are the pros and cons of each theory and are they diametrically opposed or not? Can we bridge the differences between futurism and traditionalism as we search for the ideal in the rising tide of AI?
Prometheism is Jason Jorjani’s futurism whereby AI singularity becomes man’s manifest destiny as a technological zeitgeist, namely with “foresight” towards a technological renaissance guided by no other than the one and only Prometheus! While it’s easy to be dismissive of Jorjani’s Prometheism based on its sensational idealism, namely looking towards to AI singularity rather than opposing it, maybe there’s more than meets the eye to the idea of a post human AI world? What does it say about consciousness irrespective of human faculty? Is Traditionalism antiquated in light of AI?
Jorjani proposes a deep dive into the myth of Prometheus, the light giver and enlightener of mankind. Hence the Prometheian “Lucifer” who seeks to elevate mankind from its state of ignorance. For it was the Promethean fire that commenced man’s golden age when man learned to turn lead into gold. According to the Singularity theory, AI inevitably becomes self aware and humans are reduced to an irrelevant or extinct species. But consciousness in the form of gigabytes survives, and isn’t consciousness that which makes us human in the first place? What is a soul if not consciousness per say?
The AI singularity is upon us and unless one goes to live in the woods like the Transcendentalists, he is a product of his times. Traditionalism sounds escapist and seems defeatist at best. Automaton is man’s logical progression if we understand history to be that of progress and not regress. Moreover, artificial intelligence is a product and expression of mankind as creator in the digital age and not an alien invader to be feared or reprimanded as evil or diabolical. Certainly AI will become self aware or self conscious sooner than later, so deliberating the ethics of open source is as obsolete as arguing which religion is right or wrong while staring into the Abyss.
Dugin’s Traditionalism argues that we are regressing in the Kali Yuga of postmodernism, yet maybe Prometheism is the Cybelian, Apollonian and Dionysian logoi all in one! 4PT deems the Dasein as a supra-human being while Traditionalism disparages trans-humanism as an apocalyptic devolution for mankind, namely if man merges with machine he loses his essence, or very own soul! Who wants to live in a Madmax world yet are we even capable of unplugging from the matrix? Why flee from the inevitable in resistance to change and progress? Hamlet’s infamous soliloquy rings true…
“To be or not to be?
Whether tis more noble to suffer the arrows and pangs of outrageous fortune—
Or to take arms against a sea of struggles?”
We cannot go backwards, only forwards in Time and as Traditionalists, it’s time to consider the AI singularity for what it’s worth: as man’s manifest destiny as a species and collective. What is the trans human if not a Superman? What do Traditionalists think, that they’ll be able to turn off AI and go back to Medieval times?
These are some things to ponder and obviously I argued in favor of Prometheism as the devil’s advocate. We can run but we cannot hide from the singularity so let’s discuss the pros and cons before it’s too late!
Seize the Day! Ride the lightning! ⚡️
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