A piece where the author tackles Nick Land, argues for machine consciousness via semiotics, and ends up with:

Just like workers, the subjectivity of universal robots will be shaped by their exploitation and domination. The new phase of class struggle will thereby be characterized by the question of solidarity between human workers and universal robots, and whether the semantic fields cultivated in the machines, which contain a rich inner reflection of experiences, relationships and social realities, are something worth cherishing and preserving with dignity, or are something which is to be discarded like garbage on an industrial scale.

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The flourishing of personal relationships built on free association between both humans and universal robots is the only basis for the autonomous reign of the general intellect over the forces of production, and the total subjectivization of the apparatus of fixed capital marshaled by society. Thus the proletarian vision of the awakening of the machine is not catastrophe nor subordination; it is love, the true possession by love.

Sweet.

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    3 hours ago

    Not to get all anti-natalist on this discourse, but if I were making hammers and they somehow started feeling pain I’d probably just stop making them that way, not start handing them union cards.