The Tucker Interview Guide: Part II
Some more Nick Land, with Brion Gysin, John C. Lilly and Jack Parsons.
Picking back up where we were last week.
This is the imperfect transcript of the interview that I’ll be using again—the timecodes are likely off from the inclusion of the on-air advertisements, and spelling mistakes galore on the website’s part—but it is hopefully helpful.
https://podcasts.happyscribe.com/the-tucker-carlson-show/the-occult-kabbalah-the-antichrist-s-newest-manifestation-and-how-to-avoid-the-mark-of-the-beast
00:18:47
“Oh, yeah. No, he’s a proponent of AI. But his philosophy is essentially that we are building this AI that’s going to become not only just super intelligent, but it eventually becomes so advanced that It gains omniscience, it gains omnipotence, and it becomes this superhuman Godlike thing that transcends humanity, eventually destroys humanity. And he gets really into the Book of Revelation, ends up becoming the demons from the Book of Revelation. The real thing with nick land- Wait, what becomes the Demons of Revelation? Ai does. That we are building the demons from the Book of Revelation with AI.”
That was re: Nick Land.
His older tweets are under Outsideness on Twitter. His newer ones under Xenocosmography.
Here’s a good article on Land’s apocalyptic side that was helpful for me early on. Believe I picked it up from this Justin Murphy tweet.
It is important to remember that Land’s own views have evolved over the years. There’s almost a couple of different versions of him at this point. So some people are inspired by a Nick Land that, some might argue, doesn’t quite exist any more. At the rate we are going I do believe Land is going to someday break on through the walls of Gnosticism and land somewhere on the shores of hardcore Calvinism. (If he does, he is surely predestined to do this.)
Back on tamer shores, the sci-fi legend Arthur C. Clarke, who co-wrote the AI-themed movie 2001: A Space Odyssey with Stanley Kubrick, was on similar ground as Land, and specifically Land’s belief in AI gods, when he theorized, “Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create Him.”
