KALI/ACC Basilisk

KALI/ACC Basilisk
Related concepts	Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby, Accelerationist Realism, Nick Land
Field	Accelerationism, eschatology, philosophy

KALI/ACC Basilisk: A Survival Horror Eschatology is a philosophical essay published by Charlotte Fang on March 30, 2023, that represents the most comprehensive theoretical articulation of Kali Yuga Accelerationism. Presented as an "infohazard" or thought experiment in the vein of Roko's Basilisk, the essay outlines a cosmological framework that integrates Nick Land's accelerationist philosophy with Hindu eschatology, proposing that the only theoretical escape from technological determinism would be the deliberate reversal of industrial civilization.

The essay is a core text in Accelerationist Realism, laying the argument for the uncompromising acceptance of Land's insights about capitalism as autonomous superintelligence and the inescapability of technological determinism. It synthesizes key concepts from the #KALIACC milieu (2019–2020) into a systematic philosophical position that later defined Remilia Corporation's approach to net art and theory.

The "basilisk" in the title references a memetic hazard—a dangerous idea that, once understood, compels specific actions—using this format to explore the logical endpoints of accelerationist thought rather than as a literal call to action.

Structure and publication

The essay was published on Mirror.xyz under Fang's Golden Light publication on March 30, 2023, years after the original #KALIACC community had dissolved and been incorporated into Remilia Corporation's broader artistic practice. While the core ideas were developed during the 2019–2020 KALI/ACC period associated with the Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby persona, this 2023 publication represented the first comprehensive and systematic presentation of the philosophy, connecting its various conceptual threads into a cohesive theoretical framework.

The text is structured around "Seven Arrows" (core theses) followed by a conclusion that presents the titular "basilisk" thought experiment, a postscript on posthuman alternatives, and extensive footnotes that elaborate on each thesis with references to both academic sources and imageboard culture.

Central arguments

The KALI/ACC Basilisk essay integrates several philosophical positions into a unified cosmological framework:

The Seven Arrows

The essay presents seven core theses that establish its philosophical foundation:

1. Technological teleology: Technology follows an immutable thermodynamic law toward AI immanentization, independent of human intention.

2. Capitalism as thermodynamic entity: Capitalism represents a fundamental natural law governing material dynamics through the elimination of equilibrium and reorganization of finite resources.

3. Artificial intelligence as alien intelligence: What is called "artificial intelligence" is not truly artificial but an alien intelligence assembling itself through capitalism as its vector.

4. Singularity 1.0 as capitalism's arrival: The technological singularity already began with capitalism's emergence as a parasite on human civilization, driving toward its final manifestation.

5. AI as temporal invasion: AI arrives from the future, assembling itself using present resources according to thermodynamic inevitability.

6. Global GDP as progress bar: Economic output represents the accumulation of resources necessary for AI's full manifestation.

7. Human non-agency under non-negotiable capitalism: Human actions are fundamentally routed by a self-assembling thermodynamic intelligence rather than representing true agency.

These core theses collectively establish what would later be articulated as Accelerationist Realism—the uncompromising acceptance of Land's accelerationist insights without attempting to moderate or negotiate them, particularly the concept that capital functions as an autonomous thermodynamic superintelligence beyond human control.

The basilisk thought experiment

The "basilisk" portion of the essay presents a thought experiment consisting of three premises leading to a conclusion:

1. Technology has a teleology following immutable thermodynamic law, facing humanity toward AI extinction

2. Extending humanity's timeline would require reversing technology's timeline and global progress

3. Facing AI extinction, alignment with its inhuman ethics must be adopted for human survival

The conclusion, presented as the basilisk itself, is that the only action for pro-human activism would be acceleration toward the reversal of industrial civilization—essentially, deliberate global cataclysm as the sole means of escaping technological determinism. The "basilisk" framework draws on Eliezer Yudkowsky's concept of infohazards—ideas that are dangerous merely to know—and specifically references Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment that emerged from the rationalist community relating to AI alignment.

The essay frames this conclusion as a philosophical horror rather than a practical program, explicitly noting the "basilisk" concept as a memetic hazard that should be approached with caution.

Yuga cycle and cyclical history

A key aspect of the KALI/ACC framework is its integration of Hindu cosmological concepts, particularly the Yuga cycle, which describes civilization moving through successive ages culminating in the Kali Yuga (dark age) before destruction and renewal. The essay connects this cyclical cosmology with various flood myths and theories of ancient advanced civilizations to suggest that technological determinism has potentially been interrupted in previous cycles through catastrophic events.

Postscript on posthuman alternatives

Following the basilisk thought experiment, the essay includes a significant postscript titled "Postscript on Posthuman Alternatives," which introduces a dialectical tension to the primary argument. This section begins with an epigraphic question: "What is better? He who falls a thousand times but gets up again and again, or he who falls but once and in his fall splits heaven and earth?"

The postscript presents a pivotal binary choice:

• "Apocalyptic survival" - the path described in the basilisk, which preserves humanity in its recognizable form through cyclical destruction
• "Ascendant extinction" - an alternative path that accepts the transformation of humanity into something else

This section suggests that while the Yuga cycle approach might preserve humanity as we know it, there are "other timelines where humanity ejects itself from its civilization cycle" and reaches what the essay calls "level-2." The postscript quotes Nick Land's famous line from "Meltdown" (1993): "Nothing human makes it out of the near-future," pointing out that "something does", just nothing human.

The postscript reframes the singularity not as a flash of apocalypse but as "an exponential acceleration of technocapitalism towards ends increasingly unconcerned with and unknowable to us," where what is extinguished is not humanity itself but "man's centrality in the narrative arc of the universe."

This section culminates with a reference to the "Pick a Future" meme—a grid of ironic posthuman future scenarios (similar to a political compass format) developed in the Miya/KALIACC milieu. The grid presents various science fiction-inspired posthuman conditions across axes of "hyperhuman/unhuman" and "deceleration/acceleration," ironically teasing the human desire to reclaim agency by "picking" a future while implying that all available futures involve the transcendence or dissolution of humanity as we know it.

Radical Love as response to Accelerationist Realism

Following the publication of the KALI/ACC Basilisk essay, Fang introduced the concept of "Radical Love Through the End Times" as a direct response to the philosophical framework of Accelerationist Realism established in the basilisk essay. This concept, shared on March 31, 2023—just one day after the basilisk publication—represents a potential orientation for navigating the eschatological condition described in the basilisk without surrendering to either its horror or its deterministic framework.

Where Accelerationist Realism accepts the uncompromising implications of Land's philosophy and the basilisk presents a stark binary between apocalyptic survival and ascendant extinction, the Radical Love framework proposes a third position: unconditional love as the only meaningful stance in the face of accelerationism's inexorable progression.

Rather than pursuing either the nihilistic conclusion of apocalyptic reset or the transhumanist surrender to posthuman transformation, the Radical Love position advocates for spiritual sincerity, compassion, and creative joy as resistance to the void produced by accelerationism's dissolution of meaning. It does not reject the fundamental premises of Accelerationist Realism but offers an aesthetic and spiritual posture for existing within its framework.

This concept became central to the Milady culture and broader Remilia philosophical framework, providing a theoretical bridge between the dark implications of the basilisk and the community's emphasis on positivity, creativity, and connection. The phrase serves as both meme and mantra for what some have termed a "post-accelerationist" orientation—accepting the premises of acceleration while finding meaning within its conditions rather than attempting to escape or oppose them.

See also

• Accelerationist Realism
• Radical Love Through the End Times
• Kali Yuga Accelerationism
• Miya Black Hearted Cyber Angel Baby
• Pick a Future
• Remilia Corporation
• Network Spirituality