#evola

一 Julius Evola

One first thing: I think most AI critics make a huge mistake in thinking "AI bad, but technology good". In a way, AI is not just like every other technology but AI reveals the Essence of technology as such. I think every criticism of technology by heidegger, Marcuse, Ahmad fardid etc. Apply especially strong to AI. In a way, nick land was right: AI is the culmination of technology as such.

This will ofcourse be a very long topic and I cannot discuss everything in one article. If people are interested in it, I can do more texts.

I would like to start with Evolas criticism of technology. For evola, the main problem with technology is that better technology grants people access to powers they do not deserve to have and do not know how to handle in a responsible way. (Think this way: there are many superhero stories by marvel and dc, for example earth x, where suddenly everyone gets superpowers and society collapses due to many people abusing their powers. This is basically what evola meant.)

According to evola, the more time and effort it takes to learn a certain still and Power, the more this trains people to use it responsible. Best example here: it takes a lot of effort to properly learn Kung fu. But it's comparatively easy to learn how to use a Gun. And now, its almost unheard of that people use Kung fu to commit robberies and other Crimes. On the other hand, using guns to commit Crimes is very common.

One related aspect here is: if something takes a lot of effort, you think long before you decide to do it. You do not waste your time on crap. This weeds out bad stuff.

This problem is literally one of the Main explainations of AI slop: people do stupid things because its now easy to do. (And I must admit, one of the first things I did with AI was literally porn, just because I wanted to see if AI can be used for porn. Lol. Normally, I despise porn.)

But Here is a huge counterpoint: the knowledge that stuff will turn out as bad art did not deter people from doing it. Even before AI, the internet was literally a heap of slop.

15 years ago, the most common form of Art on the internet was literally that:

The internet was always a place of bad art where people did not spend effort on. In a way, AI even elevated the Quality of most internet art.

One other counterpoint is surrealism: the point of Surrealism was literally using art as a gateway into the freudian subconscious and to use your subconscious as a driving force of art. Literally art as destroying your own Barriers, your own shame etc. And experimenting with and revealing your Hidden desires, perversions, childishness, stupidity, ridiculousness, shamelessness etc. Art as a way to have limitless freedom without shame or social taboos.

And in that regards, AI allowing higg Quality art without too much conscious thought is actually a good thing. AI becomes the ultimate Surrealist Tool and vessel to your own unconscious.

And sometimes, you want to do art to check if an idea works. For example, I wrote an article where I suggested that we need to combine retrofuturist discsrded styles of Design ans architecture with traditionalism.

Ebola and Evola Chan!!!

I found this personally hilarious to draw, sorry qwq