The Possessed Machines: Dostoevsky's Demons and the Coming AGI Catastrophe

(possessedmachines.com)

17 points | by Luc a day ago ago

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  • Luc 2 hours ago ago

    A note at the bottom of the page now says: "To conceal stylistic identifiers of the authors, the above text is a sentence-for-sentence rewrite of an original hand-written composition processed via Claude Opus 4.5."

  • akomtu 19 hours ago ago

    > In Demons, the revolutionary circle does not have a coherent plan for social transformation. Its members have various ideas, many of them contradictory. What they share is not a program but an orientation—toward destruction, toward the thrill of transgression, toward the exhilarating feeling that the old order is crumbling and they are the agents of its collapse.