Jack Arcalon
Jack Arcalon is the pen name of an American science fiction author, futurist science blogger with an emphasis on mind backup technology, and neoreaction blogger, who has been writing online since 2006. His work explores similar themes as Nick Land's Outside In blog, and the online posts of Eliezer Yudkowsky.
Contents
Themes
Arcalon's fiction explores themes relating to technological progress leading up to a technological singularity and beyond. These include:
- Mind backup methods, including memory recording methods.
- Hypothetical social networks like "FAMs" (Forced Affinity Matrix) that could allow people to efficiently form complex alliances, including elaborate conspiracies.
- Post-human super-civilizations like optimizers and multipliers, and various aspects of anthropic philosophy.
Arcalon's non-fiction blog also explores these themes, in addition to sometimes controversial social questions like human biodiversity, and software usability issues like interface rage. It started as a passive-libertarian blog emphasizing the right to opt out from various top-down control systems, like the health care monopoly. Later it addressed more alt-right concepts like the human biodiversity debate. The implications of pessimism and existentialism are also discussed.
Criticism
In 2006 Arcalon's fiction was severely criticized on the Kuro5hin forums for appearing to trivialize rape in a way that appeared politically incorrect.[1] The issue was that some subjects should not be casually mentioned in passing in a way that resembles the stand-up comedy of Sarah Silverman.
Bibliography
Fiction
- Infinite Thunder
June 2007; a novel set in 2041 about a major transition before the Singularity.[2]
- Rocksliderider versus Eyewallsurfer
June 2012; 32 short SF stories.[3]
- A Sextillion Skies
September 2012; 73 short and very short science fiction stories, including the longer story "Theory of Everything".[4]
- Singularity Bytes
March 2013; 61 short and ultra short SF stories, including the longer story "Antilibertarian".[5]
Non fiction
- Anthropic Intelligence
October 2011; philosophy of awareness, anthropic metaphysics, post-human evolution, futurism.[6]
- The Malism Columns
February 2012; mostly political columns about major social and ergonomic problems, and their apparent intractability.[7]
- The Angry Futurist
April 2012; columns detailing the increasing friction between technology and human limitations.[8]
External links
- Back Up Your Mind blog
References
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- ↑ Deleted website | http://kuro5hin.org/comments/2006/10/12/34755/950/1
- ↑ Originally published September 2006, expanded and revised with new material | lulu dot com/shop/jack-arcalon/infinite-thunder/ebook/product-17532918.html
- ↑ ISBN number: 978-1-105-86881-8 | lulu dot com/shop/jack-arcalon/rocksliderider-versus-eyewallsurfer-ebook/ebook/product-20207809.html
- ↑ Official page | http://www.lulu dot com/shop/jack-arcalon/a-sextillion-skies/ebook/product-20375838.html
- ↑ ISBN number: 978-1-300-79066-2 | http://www.lulu dot com/shop/jack-arcalon/singularity-bytes/ebook/product-20723093.html
- ↑ lulu.com bookstore page | http://www.lulu dot com/shop/jack-arcalon/anthropic-intelligence-ebook/ebook/product-18481361.html
- ↑ ID: 12557951 | http://www.lulu dot com/shop/the-resistance/the-malism-columns/ebook/product-20044873.html
- ↑ Official page | http://www.lulu dot com/shop/arcalon-productions/the-angry-futurist/ebook/product-20042417.html
