sasha shilina

phd @paradigm_hub @episteme_sci @efi_sci ⤿ collective intelligence, philosophy of tech, art

[sasha shilina @sshshln]

part I is out. the opening move of bat{AI}lle: AI as acephalic intelligence + the general economy of computation

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Check out our new publication, Sasha Shilina’s (@sshshln) “On Acephalic Intelligence and the General Economy of Computation” (link below)

Sasha argues that AI should be read less as “frictionless” interface intelligence and more as a planetary regime of expenditure—water, electricity, labor, extraction, and epistemic overflow—whose costs are aestheticized away by the language of optimization. Drawing on Georges Bataille, Shilina reframes AI through “general economy,” where surplus is unavoidable and must be spent, and develops “acephalic intelligence” to name AI as a headless assemblage of infrastructures, standards, institutions, and data/compute flows that concentrates power without a single sovereign subject.

The essay links contemporary AI pathologies—sacrificial hidden work, infrastructural governance, and synthetic plausibility that outpaces truth—to broader theoretical constellations (postwar political economy, media theory, accelerationist and inhuman turns, and cosmotechnics), insisting the core stakes extend beyond bias or transparency to questions of sovereignty, sacrifice, waste, and the possibility of refusal or counter-design within an expanding computational order.

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Who gets recognised as a person, an expert or a trustworthy source?

The systems answering those questions deserve scrutiny.

Sasha Shilina (@sshshln) researches emerging technologies at @Paradigm_hub Research Institute and co-founded @episteme_sci . Her work includes research on biometric identity and its cultural implications, alongside writing on AI and scientific knowledge.

She joins Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress 3 with questions that reach beyond technical performance: how do these systems affect participation, recognition and trust?

Meet Sasha alongside advocates and builders examining the choices embedded in digital infrastructure.

2 Nov · Mumbai · Free entry
https://t.co/9RPG6NawQn

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@bballer_530 隐私是自由
隐私是秩序
隐私是进步

https://t.co/4Um4Qdorge

[sasha shilina @sshshln]

@bratton wow, almost exactly my taste

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Sybil Residency———Arc 2

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@GolatoTyler @PrimeIntellect congrats!!

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🫂4000 people
🔊80 speakers from @Isa to @VitalikButerin
🩷20 community partners from @torproject to @OpenObservatory
⛑️50 volunteers
🫆1 Cypherpunk Congress

Joy of activism 🪷 Mumbai, 2 Nov: https://t.co/tmQC59hroB

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@bryan_johnson 👀

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@SiratoriKenji i keep arriving at them from opposite ends: artaud forces language through the body; LLMs test how far language can keep going without one

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@Nature what happens to scientific judgment when we automate the work that used to produce it?

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@dioscuri wow

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@AndrewCyrilMac1 that’s probably the core of it c:

[sasha shilina @sshshln]

the island isolates a body.
intelligence escapes the cut.

new essay >hayy ibn yaqzan. mediation. montage. ilyenkov. negarestani. the stack. collective intelligence.. https://t.co/Y8my8lP3LE

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@EFDevcon :33

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@theojaffee feels like a ccru footnote that escaped into reality

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@Grimezsz film theory has been arguing about it for decades. would genuinely love to see what an experimental version of that debate looks like

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@NatGeo :3

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reading a book about the last soviet generation and keep thinking about LLMs: human heteroglossia goes in, standardized probability comes out.. somehow the norm is statistical now

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@athenabiorg @realNathanCheng excited !

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@jack 🤍

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@BenjaminDEKR way too plausible