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title: Part One — Subsumption
book: Purposive Accelerationism
author: '@jamie247'
position: 4 of 24
canonical: https://whatispacc.org/ebook/#part-one
version: 1.1
language: en-GB
licence: all rights reserved; quote with attribution
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# Part One — Subsumption

A governor can be put back only if the case for going without one has first been heard at full strength, so this section begins there. It grants the argument against constraint everything that is true in it, and then asks what that argument leaves unsaid: who sets the ends towards which an ungoverned machine runs, and what becomes of the people whose work, craft and judgement it is built to absorb. From there it follows the engine to the places it is most likely to come down, and reads the clock that measures how long a remedy stays affordable. The verdict does not rest on any guess about what the machine intends. It rests on sums anyone can check, and on a choice that remains open only for as long as someone still has the means to make it.