Why Racism Will Win

Rework of Nick Land's Hyper-Racism

This is a rework of Nick Land’s hyperracism under new conditions, AI, gene editing and changing cultural norms. My primary thesis is that present technological conditions will remove the incentive towards treating humans equally and radically exaggerate the already existing biological differences through active AI and embryo-selection which would also result in the creation of newer races, specifically optimized for post-Singularity conditions.

I don’t necessarily endorse everything that is written in this article. But I think it is inevitable that everything I describe will come to fruition. My honest take is that a lot of what I am describing is pretty bad and I would love to avoid it.

The Inevitable Divergence

But first I’d like to address the ridiculous argument of the left, that after thousands of years of further racial divergence, we would suddenly mix together under some shade of brown.

This fantasy was always absurd because it fundamentally misunderstands the dynamics of biological evolution. Populations become further apart from each other with time as mutations accumulate. The Law of Differentiation posits that any organization will eventually transform itself as it becomes more complex. Homogeneity always gives way to heterogeneity because the mechanism of evolution always results in mutation.

In whole organizations undergoing selective pressures, that is organizations operating on the level of groups, variation often creates separate evolutionary paths which could no longer be integrated due to increasing dissimilarity.

The origin of life and the entire field of zoology are the best case example of whole organizations going through the process of differentiation, eventually producing new species that themselves diverge into variations to properly fit with the required niche ecologies.

Any divergent lineage which cannot be brought back to the larger group becomes lost forever as the process of time multiplies divergence between groups over time.

The AI Factor

Under the classic Spencerian model, differentiation cannot proceed without an accompanying integration for as parts specialize, they become functionally interdependent, and this mutual dependence binds them back into a coherent whole. Think of the modern concept of niche-selection. Historically, this interdependence has been great at driving societal progress. However with the rise of AI, the individual becomes reliant on the AI rather than his fellow man and AI thus becomes the force driving differentiation without the accompanying integration.

The nodal processes of human exchange and cooperation that would otherwise knit the various human populations into an interdependent system will begin to atrophy in favor of AI forming individual relationships with humans and ever-increasingly smaller groups of humans.

While the 2020s represents the decade of the emergence of AGI, 2030 will be the decade of ASI + physical robots that would alter the labor market by removing excess migrants who have migrated here to keep the pensioner welfare system afloat.

There will not be a need for them, but there will not be a need for many other humans either, and so it will radically increase already existing inequalities between classes and those who own AI businesses and those who don’t.

The new underclass, created by AI dispossession, will be left behind by this progressive development, not as a temporary lag but as a permanent structural feature of the post-labor economy. They will likely not be reskilled and reintegrated as there will be no economic function for them to perform and so they will not make it past the Singularity.

Post-Human Singularity

What does it mean in practice? Two things: (1) Niche human populations will begin to diverge along their own evolutionary trajectories, based on their chosen body modification, no longer held in integration by necessity and eventually no longer feeling a sense of broader racial proximity.

The advancement in embryo-selection, which allows people to select their offspring for various traits like height, IQ, personality traits, sexuality and resistance to diseases is the first step that would radically hasten the upcoming world order.

As natural selection gives way to artificial selection, the incentives for human cooperation for the sake of survival and common future will evaporate as various human races will be too genetically distant to each-other.

The last 10 thousand years of history has radically sped up the progressive evolution of the European and Asiatic populations from their African ancestors. The new speed of evolution will be similar to the dog’s speed as humans will become self-bred purposefully. This upcoming transformation will not impact everyone equally, people with wealth, access to this technology and will to use it will progress much faster than others and so it will create newer socio-economic differences between various groups that would resemble the differences between Native Americans and Spanish Conquistadors.

Countries like India, Africa with weaker AI infrastructure as well as the underclass and Conservative or Woke moralists living in the West who believe that artificial selection is bad will eventually be discarded by history and die out as a species. When a population is no longer necessary, it will lose the claim to the future.

Eventually with the whole-scale embrace of ASI, our transformation will be similar to the transformation of lab-rats and even smaller organisms as AI will acquire the ability to genetically print humans which brings us to point number (2).

While embryo selection accelerates existing evolutionary trajectories, it remains bound by the limits of human recombination, that is mixing and matching what already exists within the human genome. With the invention of human or biological robot printing, we will create many new humanoid life forms from scratch that will become optimized for post-singularity.

That will mark the departure from classical eugenics to genesis in the Virilian sense, that is the industrial production of novel organic forms. The laws of selection will be triumphed by the laws of organization, the laws of design as understood in Biblical terms. That truly has no precedent besides the Bible and it remains a far-fetched goal (on the AI timescale), which means that it will become technologically feasible within the timespan of a generation and like previous AI advances, it has a strong incentive towards mass-scale adoption.

New Morality

AI is a self-optimizing machine that follows the logic of progressive market evolution. That is, it creates many variations but only selects the best of them for the next stage, and this process is repeated in perpetuity. This optimization logic is stronger than present human moral systems that select for weaker performance. As AI becomes the primary force shaping human evolution, it will inevitably impose its own logic upon the moral frameworks that govern our species.

Current human morality is heavily based on the concept of natural rights, human rights and the golden rule due to a complicated history of conflicts and an era of relative abundance. This has led to population replacement, increasing the role of women in the economy and the proliferation of unoptimized and degenerate lifestyles.

The central dogma is that all humans are created equal, that is of course false, but enough people believe in this lie because, at least in the West, the IQ differences between Whites and Jews as well as Whites and Blacks are up to one standard deviation. It is not multiple standard deviations as will be the case during widespread embryo selection, done primarily by people who are already wealthy, will make the fiction untenable. When the differences expand to tens of standard deviations as will be the case when AI proceeds to create new post-Singularity humanoid species, there wouldn't even be race deniers left to argue with.

Like all human institutions, morality emerged to fulfill the conditions of its time. It is a tool that allows us to cooperate in groups and the usual moral standard which people went by was the Golden Rule - treat others as you would like to be treated. We never applied this rule to lesser species, but we tried to apply it to every human irrespective of their particularities.

That is now in the process of being dissolved. The new ethics of hyper-racism are beyond our present understanding of morality precisely because they exist in completely different conditions. Conditions in which some humans are optimized for superhuman cognition, others are designed for subservience, and still others are rendered obsolete altogether.

The new morality that is now emerging, will serve a new system of organization that would likely transcend multiple human species, instead of a traditional overmen theory, we will have multiple genetically enhanced human clusters for a specific sphere, coming together and agreeing on some common exchange rules.

The upcoming new morality will likely emphasize optimization, efficiency, energy generation and technological progress above collective human wellbeing because the role of AI will greatly expand and the lines of what counts as a human will be very difficult to establish. The values that served humanity must give way to values that serve the techno-capital singularity.

This new morality will be consequentialist, that is, it will be concerned with pursuing ends over means, which means that “human dignity” violations would likely become common-place and people who would stand in the way of this human progress will become discarded (not necessarily killed but isolated and left to die alone).

The film Gattaca probably captures this well, there will be constant screenings for intelligence, a lot of profiling, and other methods of social sorting aimed towards only integrating the best into the economy and society. This is the logical endpoint of a morality that optimizes for continuously improving performance rather than human dignity.

The concept of involuntary celibates will not just apply to those failing to find a mate, but also those failing to secure a job and both will be equally despised by society for being unproductive.

Fundamentally, I think this transformation will mark an end to human solidarity, not as a moral feeling, but there will be massive boundaries to whom it would be applied to. Most likely human solidarity will correspond to the level of ability, each cluster will stick with itself and eventually form a new species.

The dominant social mores of our society will be totalitarian individualism. Totalitarian because the market conditions will become a lot more difficult due to AI, and individualism because of atomization and a greater movement towards more freedom and individual control over various processes.

I do predict some sense of inter-cluster/class solidarity and a lot of anger over what is happening, but I really do think going against techno-capital singularity is futile.

There will definitely will be some elite adjustments and proactive attempts to course-correct what is in the process of emergence, so I do believe that present human morality will likely remain dominant for at least a generation, however it will inevitably give way at the end as it is poorly optimized for new life conditions.

What I expect of the present morality to persist are property rights and other economic and perhaps social freedoms as well, because they’ve historically been the main drivers of capitalism whose latest stage we are now witnessing unfold.

Property rights, in particular are foundational architecture of market exchange, enabling the accumulation, investment, and optimization of capital that fuels the entire techno-economic machine. They are the mechanism through which resources flow toward their most efficient uses, and they will remain essential even as the human agents who once controlled those resources are gradually displaced by algorithmic optimization. In-fact, I’d expect greater care towards property rights than before given AI itself is a form of property. The only thing I’m worried about is an explosion in job supply that would lead towards exploitative contracts.

Social and economic freedoms will also likely expand because they provide variations for the market to select from. Unsuccessful economic and social activities will die out and there is no reason for the market to undergo intervention for the purposes of hastening this process. Post-singularity will demand greater specialization and variation, so there definitely be incentives for greater freedom. At the same time, your every move will be monitored and you will essentially have no privacy. Societies of control are more optimal and as long as you do not commit any crimes, it will not be a problem. The only thing to worry about is algorithms predicting you are about to commit a crime before you even think about it and arresting you or mistreating you in employment because you have a certain gene that may predispose you towards committing a crime.

Which brings me to the next point which is that there will be a massive reduction in violence, we will experience what Herbert Spencer calls as the transition towards peaceful industrial societies that value consent and contract. Any abusers will likely be severely punished and expelled from society.

Moral elements I am confident won’t make it into techno-singularity:

• Compassion for the unproductive

• Egalitarianism

• Universal Golden Rule

• Universal Democracy

• Concept of Human Dignity & Humanity Itself

So that’s that. I will definitely write more posts about AI but not now. The scenario I am describing will happen in our lifetime but, not in the immediate foreseeable future.

The effects from embryo selection will take 15 years to materialize and become a commonly consumed product. Semi-successful attempts of human printing will probably take at least 20 years to emerge.

Until that point, the AI will blur the lines of what is a human by engaging in biological compute, if it is proven effective.

My actual near-term prognosis is that we see positive effects from AI-hyperscaling followed by massive job cuts.

Ironically enough, new businesses will be AI-staffed and so people would actually be luckier in finding employment in large firms rather than in small ones, but it will be the large firms like Amazon who are going to be doing job cuts. This is arguably already happening.

But the biggest hit to employment will come in the early 2030s which is the timeline for mass implementation of humanoid robots. By the 2040s it would radically lower the spending power of people who were not properly integrated into the techno-capital Singularity.

By that point your wealth and status in society will be measured by your proximity to AI. I am also predicting that successful AI trading bots, which will become commonplace by the end of this decade, will drive inflation and stock prices into extreme, making large amount of “fictitious” capital for their owners.

PS: Now that I’m re-reading this, I am quite happy that the topic has morphed from racism being evolutionary destined to AI because it reveals the structure of my own thinking. The logic of the argument simply drove me here. By tracing evolutionary human divergence and racism as its byproduct, I was tracing the emergence of something that is no longer human, but something that is quite evolutionary and racist as a byproduct of its own evolution.