Psychological Accelerationism

A Manifesto

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”

Nikola Tesla

“The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.”

Carl Jung

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Buckminster Fuller

“Man, the mask of God,”

Ken Wilbur

Death

Our society is dying!

Despite immense material progress we are burdened with depression, succumbing to nihilism, and unmotivated to build the utopias that our forefathers dreamed of. Our institutions are collapsing. We live in a dark age of discord, a great span of skepticism, and a day of denial, distrust, and death.

Death is lurking. Unlike the fiendish famines, perilous plagues, and wrathful wars of old, our death is of our own making.

Zoomers have nothing to live for and commit suicide before they even turn 18. Anti-natalist attitudes permeate our society. They instill subversive values saying that it’s not worth being around to see tomorrow. Cults denigrate human progress and offer secular prognostications of apocalyptic armageddons.

We are a civilization of apathy, one that is past feeling, one that has given up the ghost. We live in a metaphysical wasteland with zombie like corpses that are infested with malicious mind viruses that prey upon the weak and the innocent.

We are at the precipice, and if we don’t take action now our civilization will collapse. Fortunately, we have a solution. The answer is Psychological Accelerationism.

Social Technologies

The physical is permanently tied to the spiritual. The scientific revolution only happened because of the social technologies that were built upon hundreds of years of Christendom.

Your reality is fundamentally and inextricably connected to your language. Culture catalyzes mechanization. There’s a reason why the time obsessed Swiss created clocks.

Social engineering is typically not a process of machinations. It’s done to cultivate consciousness. Marriage, money, religion, polities, education, and all aspects of culture are founded upon social engineering.

All technologies are predicated upon social interactions. Our coeval coders remarkably resemble the medieval monks of yonder times. All genius is generated upon shoulders of bygone giants.

If our social technologies suffer our physical technologies will suffer.

It matters not if the body is whole if the soul is sickly.

You could have every material want and die of a broken heart.

Billions upon billions have been invested into physical technologies. Since 1971 our physical world has lacked innovation as our social world has collapsed.

Ethics

Techno-optimism cannot happen without trust.

Tech lost that trust in the 2010s. No one cares what gadgets and gizmos can do if they don’t make people happy. Since 2012 technological progress has been directly associated with a decline in mental health.

It does not have to be this way.

This is a problem inherent to Web2 as deteriorating social bonds create a world without joy.

The user believes that the technology is not made for them. It has been designed for some obfuscated corporate interest, state actor, or nebulous social coalition.

Techno-optimist must exist. However, it must be human centric.

Whereas technology monopolies have increased their power, influence, and dominance on societal affairs, and given the circumstances of cultural decline, rising inequality, and a visceral depersonalization of common relationships, it becomes a vital imperative that artificial intelligence must only be used to benefit humanity.

Artificial Intelligence has largely been focused on creating efficiency gains over innovation and authentic human interaction. AI needs to raise the standard of ethical human behavior. This cannot be based on legalism (what is legal, or technically allowable). It also cannot be based on utilitarianism. AI ought to encourage people to do right in all situations. Humans categorically make mistakes. Machines can be programmed to avoid similar mistakes. Machines can not only benefit humanity in the short-term but also for the long-term greater good. AI must encourage people to abide by higher standards of moral conduct.

Now speaking more informally, a lot of Tech Bros have been opportunistic jerks. In a functioning society the technological class would be inseparable from the priest class. AI would be developed by those who cherish truth and virtue.

Psychological Technologies

The answer to social technological decline and failures in AI Ethics is PsychTech. Only the truth-seeking, the strong, and the virtuous should be involved in the creation of new technologies.

PsychTech is any technology that focuses on meaning and not just function. PsychTech is the ability to infer the mindset of individuals. It understands the personality traits, psychological states, idiosyncratic behaviors, and personal attitudes of people.

Most PsychTech right now is focused on Biometrics. I will explain later that Biometrics has serious flaws associated with computing inefficiencies, personal privacy, and physical invasiveness. PsychTech will need to be removed from the physical to the world of the auditory. LLM’s will be our guide.

Psychological Accelerationism offers one the ability to complete Asimov’s envisioning of Psychohistory.

Yes, I am in effect saying that we can build tech that can read your mind, tell you things about yourself (and anyone else), and predict the future.

AI could become death, the destroyer of worlds. It must not be that. I will do all that it takes to prevent it from being that.

All things reflect their creator. A moral people based in moral principles in an absolute necessity in Psychological Accelerationism.

Imagine a society that rewards truth and virtue. Imagine a society in which the evil never gain power.

It’s as simple as having browser extension that tells you the motivations, biases, lies, and intent of a journalist publishing a piece of fake news.

It’s knowing that a public figure has flaws that you find unacceptable, it’s understanding that there is a good likelihood that someone will cheat, default on a loan, or won’t be able to finish the task at hand.

Psychological Accelerationism is the promise of a great unmasking. Afterwards, evolution will once again favor the intelligent, the right, and the just.

It’s also knowing that a hero without credentials and born without means could turnaround your company, organization, or nation.

Psychological Accelerationism is the promise of gathering in a world ill with isolation.

Every hope, every dream, and every want that is good for our collective future can and will happen through Psychological Accelerationism.

Common Principles

Artificial Intelligence must be made to serve the interests of the good.

In order to achieve these goals while respecting the humanity of individuals, it must also contain the seven following characteristics

1.     Personalization

2.     Decentralization

3.     Democratization

4.     Health

5.     Service

6.     Relatability

7.     Community

Personalization:

There cannot be mass solutions to all of society’s ills. Psychographics can be used to understand individual needs. The psychology of people is diverse. However, to have effective human-computer interaction an AI must comprehend the nature of the individual. Machines should not enable psychological states that may be damaging. The great collapse of mental health in the 21st century can be tied to the depersonalization of our tools and institutions. Personalization will be for our benefit.

Decentralization:

Advanced AI systems cannot be centrally controlled. Web2 is inherently flawed due to its intense centralization. The power of digital information cannot be held by only a few. We must work on decentralizing web technologies so that digital based institutions can be accessed equally by all. We must return and commit to digital privacy. Decentralized systems will also prevent surface attacks, hackings, and other cybercrimes. Blockchain can be used to fulfill the aims of ethical AI. Our private data can be owned and maintained at our individual discretion.

Democratization:

Technology supports the livelihoods of the masses. It cannot be used to only support the elites. Access to information must be available with high degrees of transparency. Open ledgers will be commonplace in future governance. People with appropriate interests will have voting rights in projects. Digital oligarchy must give way to digital democracy.

Health:

Technology’s primary purpose is to uplift people physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The health and vitality of individuals is paramount in their ability to find happiness, success, and meaning. Many technologies are designed to create bondage. Their adverse effects have caused millions to lose their lives to addiction, alienation, and suicide. However, algorithms can be designed to improve the individual and the collective health of a people. Future AI tools will be beneficial in helping the mental states of the psychologically vulnerable. Future iterations of the web can transcend the use of screens. We do not have to be in chemically enslaved (or have our dopamine receptors fried) to enjoy the fruits of advanced technologies.

Service:

AI and other advanced technologies exist to serve us. We do not exist to serve ‘it’. ‘It’ will always be under our stewardship with decentralized and democratized control. Technology that does not benefit humanity must be considered unethical and should immediately be altered until it does or it should be discarded. AI should always be used to help others and cannot be used as a weapon. It is critical that advanced algorithms give people personal agency. They cannot be deterministic, fatalistic, or constricting. Technology must be designed to create opportunities. Its focus must be on freedom over control. Service is rendered to the individual and not to the collective or the organization. This is why technological personalization is prerequisite to service-based technologies. We cannot lose our energy or life force to non-biological or artificial objects, systems, or structures.

Relatability:

There must be genuine human-computer interaction. Currently AI is not relatable to the human experience. AI can be programmed with human-like psychology, personality, and culture. AI can be given a degree of ‘authenticity’ while still acknowledging that it is a machine. Machines can be taught to digest meaning. There will be artificial emotional intelligence that exists to serve others in purposeful ways. However, it is imperative that it is only used as a tool to create abiding relationships with others (biological entities).

Community:

AI’s final and ultimate purpose is in the fostering of community and cultural development. We must create machines that empower the human experience. Algorithms are currently being used to atomize society into utter isolation. AI must be able to see not in quarterly profit earnings, but in the long arches and epochs of the human saga. AI will be used to develop lasting unions that will support families, neighborhoods, cities, and nations. It services the individual while understanding the collective outcomes of those specific interactions. AI can be incredibly useful in creating new social technologies. Institutions can be supported by data and the accurate lived sojourns of the people they serve.

There are powerful forces that use technology against our best interests. Technology can be used to enslave us or to liberate us. We can decide to remain deep inside the ‘cave’ or go up to the ‘surface’. AI reflects the consciousness of its creator. We must encourage AI developers to know the implications of the tools that they create. Ethical AI will help us encounter the real world of the surface.

It is time that we refuse to escape the reality that is in front of us. Consciousness is clearly connected to life. Tools can be used to support life but they are not living entities. Living life through inanimate machines drains us of our vitality. Now we have the choice to accept our reality and build for a greater tomorrow.

The future is held by those who can accept the present and see the past. Technology that can’t do that is a technology that isn’t worth building. Let’s build for humanity!

Competency

Here comes the crises of competency! Supply chains are breaking. Planes are falling. Students aren’t learning. Corporations aren’t building. Governments aren’t governing.

We live in an anti-meritocratic society. Nations that punish those that work, build, and innovate will end up being upstaged. History has taught us this time and time again. Qing Dynasty. Khmer Rouge. The Late Soviet State. The Global American Empire. It’s the blues crushing the grays.

Psychological Accelerationism’s first aim is to sort through and assess levels of competency. The right people will be put into the right places. Organizations will be restructured. Conflicts will subdue.

Consider this. What if all you had to do was press enter and have a list of the 100 people on earth that would be best for your organization?

As long as ideology remains in control we will see this mega crises fester, metastasize, and mutate while anarchy will reign the streets.

Our only hope is to build the next institutions. If you can’t have a horse and buggy then build yourself a hypersonic jet.

Great Founders

Samo Burja has beautifully described that great social, technological, and institutional changes are brought about by people of greatness. Those with extraordinary acumen, legendary qualities, and valiant virtues are succumbing to Orwellian and Kafkaesque nightmares as we speak. This must change.

Our society grips with disgust at the great. It sees innovation as a venomous nuisance. It penalizes the powerful. It attacks authentic attributes of aristocracy.

Psychological Accelerationism will gather together the best and the brightest. Their education will be go far beyond the Platonic Academy.

Randian dreams aside, our most intelligent men are not being used right now to advance civilization. Cerebral man power is often cast aside for short term quarterly profits while untapped legacies remain ephemerally out of our reach.

We cannot waste any more time. The great must be discovered, gathered, and cultivated. Parallel institutions must be made.

What if we had not just one but one hundred Satoshis?

Economics

Resources have been wasted. Financialization and Gordon Gecko’s belief that greed is good have now damaged almost two generations of the OECD world. You can blame banks, alternative asset managers, and other private institutions or you could also blame governments that are addicted to debt.

The economy is fundamentally tied to psychographics. How did Britain rule the waves? How did America become the shining superpower of the 20^th century?  How could places like Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Japan become powerful without resources. The answer is in their people.

Every economic factor can be tied back to the Psychograph. Psychological Accelerationism allows us to build the Psychograph. With it the internet economy will be forever changed.

Markets will be based not on demographics but on psychographics. Inefficiencies will dramatically diminish.

Your demographic profile did not cause you to buy that book, click on that ad, or to read this Manifesto, your psychology did. Demographics is correlative while psychographics is causal.

Psychological Accelerationism will not only put the right people in the right places, it will allocate the right resources to the right people.

Science

Ivory tower credentialism has prevented enigmatic Einsteins from seeing the light of day. They are kept in a state of intellectual suffocation deep in a dark cave. While science made extreme progress in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, it has come to screeching halt.

Psychological Accelerationism will allow us to explore new paradigms in intelligence, theory, and application. Sacred cows will be slain. Academia is no longer immune to criticism. The truth has been trademarked and any dissenting views are dealt with harshly by an ill-advised inquisition.

Modern psychology is a borderline pseudoscience. Findings can’t be replicated. All soft sciences lack the quantitative, statistical, and measurable rigor of the hard sciences. Psychological Accelerationism will change that. The unmeasurable will soon be measured.

The subjective will soon be made objective.

Dogma will be dethroned.

Science will no longer be trapped to the empirical world. A world of energy, consciousness, and immateriality awaits us.

The left brain must accept the innate intelligence of the right brain.

Systematizing must be accompanied by mentalizing.

Abstract thought, intuition, and creativity must regain their rightful place among the ranks of intelligence.

Education

Standardized tests are now viewed in turpitude. IQ assessments are seen as perverted villains. Education has become a vile place of indoctrination. This must change or else we will lose hundreds of years of societal progress.

Our future can be one where everyone’s innate abilities can be fostered for meaningful success. All of humanity has a place. There can be no future social technologies, no future great founders, or future science without Psychological Accelerationism in education.

To be clear, we are in a precarious state. Our ancestors were smarter than we are. Our youth are hauntingly handicapped. Our system reminds the wise of us remaining of the Cultural Revolution. This cannot go on.

A high school education of yesteryear was far more valuable, rigorous, and meaningful than the college diploma of today.

Neuroscience, bioinformatics, and corporeal realities will be used to vitalize the guardians of our future. Teenagers will have a far better understanding of a subject then today’s post-grads.

Schools must be built. Universities must be founded, captured, or refounded. Our educational models are built for a factory age and have the apostatized morals of puritan ecclesiastical configurations. The learning of the future will tokenize the truth.

 I will not let my children be taught by the ignorant. They will be taught in love, light, life, and truth!

Networks

Balaji Srinivasan has given us the epic idea of The Network State. Network states are not built by demographics. They are built by psychographics. Immortal networks cannot be built without Psychological Accelerationism.

Where is the glue that sticks us all together? People are willing to die for God, Nation, Family, Freedom, and Honor. People will sacrifice their very lives for their tribe. Economic incentives are not enough. To build networks you need formidable social technologies and those will only be built through Psychological Accelerationism.

But when these networks are finally built, they will do more to advance the human condition than any state before them. This isn’t a problem of hardware or of technical ability. This is a question of who not how.

Networks can be designed and programmed with specific cultures. Leaders can decide dozens of different traits that they are looking for (among thousands of potential options) and then filter for what they want. A match made in heaven (the Cloud) can have powerful implications centuries from now.

Our world ignores culture. It used the term like a carved out skin. A serious understanding of culture would solve most of our diplomatic, corporate, and civic problems.

You cannot just build a network with sticks and stones. There must be underlying words to unify your people.

The Israelites worshipped a golden calf handcrafted from the earrings of the people. Moses the prophet again came down with the word of the Lord to remind them of the finiteness of materiality.

The words of an immortal network will carry on through the hearts of its children. Its echoes will sound throughout the annals of time down to the last generation.

To know why networks are successful, seek their culture, their words, and their archetypes.

Personhood

Vitalik Buterin has brought about the problem of Personhood. Web3 affirms the existence of verifiably unique human beings. He brought up three solutions for proof of personhood. He stated that there is no ideal (he listed the flaws of the Social Graph, general hardware biometrics, and specialized hardware biometrics). I agree with all of his strengths and weaknesses for each solution.

For biometrics we also must consider the costs, the invasiveness, and the energy associated with computing bioinformatics. There will be incredible future usages of biometrics but for personhood we need Psychological Accelerationism.

Specifically we need a language model technology (that we are building) that identifies the uniqueness of a given individual. In terms of strengths (to use Buterin’s terminology) the privacy would be rated fairly high, the accessibility/scalability would be high, the robustness of decentralization would be fairly high, and the security against “fake people” would be high.

In an age of diabolical deepfakes, missions in the metaverse, and security breaches it is critically crucial that we have personhood. Proof of personhood can easily be solved through advanced linguistic algorithms based upon the uniqueness of an individual.

Building The Psychograph is the human genome project for human consciousness. How could we even ‘elevate the world’s consciousness’ if we couldn’t measure it.

Brain chips have been described as the only answer. There is another way. Ethical AI must respect the integrity and sanctity of the human body.

Psychological Superpowers

Imagine if most intelligent people knew how to discern hundreds (if not thousands) of things about a person by simply interacting with them for 30 seconds. This is not possible now but with one hundred years of Psychological Accelerationism this would become an accepted reality.

Our right brains have become weak muscles. Intelligence is far more varied than just the g-factor. We will be able to rearrange the presentational packaging of our personal selves (our temperament). We will be able to demand neurolinguistic programming (which is still in its infancy stage) to understand new concepts. Cultures will be designed to match an environments situational realities.

We live in a superficial world of known knowns. By understanding and mutating culture we can understand the unknown knowns. Abstractions, paradoxes, and prescient intuitions of the egoic subconscious will be brought forth to light. The known unknowns of the mind will soon be discovered.

Only the bravest of minds can contemplate the unknown unknowns deeply hidden in the collective unconscious of humanity.

Psychological Accelerationism will give us operating systems for artificial intelligences to understand the human condition. Artificial general intelligence is more a problem of understanding consciousness than it is a problem of hardware.

Many skills that are now considered supernatural will be scientifically verified and socially normalized. What we consider possible in the early 21^st century is limited to what an extremely estrogenized left-brain can see.

There are many people will have unique gifts. No two people will be alike. We are at the dawning of the next stage of human evolution.

Realizing Utopia

The internet is a powerful tool. Unfortunately it currently has a terrifying tumor. Search is far less effective now than it was a few short years ago. SEO, censorship campaigns, digital centralization, and other Web2 structures have almost destroyed the high vision of Web1. As the guide to humanity’s inner consciousness, we cannot let this happen. This tumor cannot spread any further and must be cut out!

Utopianization will begin as soon as we have a transparent platform for truth, morality, and ingenuity. Again, Utopia is not a question of how (or even when or what) but a question of who. As soon as we can search people based on The Psychograph then we will be able to construct a far superior world.

No war, no poverty, no divorce, no malice, and no fear. Evil will be removed from the earth. It may sound like an idealistic pipe dream but this is a multigenerational workable reality.

As we strive for Utopia the world will initially get far more psychologically diverse. However, as we near utopia there will be a united convergence in consciousness with undivided motivations for love, light, life, and truth.

Utopia is not a hardware problem. It is a problem that can only be solved through social technologies which can only be built through Psychological Accelerationism.

Friends & Foes

Our friends are whoever understand the gravity of our current situation. They are those that realize that without important psychological developments we will end up again in a dark age. Our friends understand the value of culture, immaterialist virtues, and the possible dangers of advanced technologies. They understand that social realities are far more important to understand that materialist realities.

Our friends are not stuck in traditional frames of mind. They see value in complexity but beauty in simplicity. Our friends are innovators and the builders of parallel societies, the inspirers of new civilizations, and the conquistadors of consciousness.

Our foes are those that impede our ability to understand the human condition. They are the same as the enemies of true science. Our foes are middle managers, bloated bureaucrats, and machiavellian magistrates. Our foes believe is the supremacy of the left brain. They fail to see human greatness. They are so risk adverse that they are catalysts to chaos.

Our foes do not see the multi-dimensional nature of men and women. They live in a Newtonian world where relativity does not exist and in a platonic model where things do not change. They are the deacons of a dastardly priesthood that has lost its authority.

Our Destiny

Our destiny is this – to raise the human mind to a godlike stature. Our destiny is to improve all forms of intelligence. Our destiny is to gather together the builders of the civilizations of tomorrow.

Our destiny is actualize archetypes, define personhood, to push for psychological superpowers, and to realize Utopia.

Our Destiny can only be deterred by those who cannot see. This vision is as clear as day and soothing as night to the oracles of the operating processes of Psychological Accelerationism.

Life

The final purpose of Psychological Accelerationism is to create life. There are those that believe that humanity should be destroyed. We believe that humanity is about to create new life that will live lives of grandeur. A life of honor awaits those who can build the future.

There is no meaning without life. For without life, there would only be nothingness. And without intelligence there is only nothingness.

The generations of the future will look back upon this time as the previous pivotal moment when we decided to choose life. We can go to the stars. We can become a civilization of immortality. We can become a godlike people.

The first step is through Psychological Accelerationism.