This work develops a speculative–theoretical framework that reinter-prets global capitalism as a planetary-scale emergent intelligence—anOOO-style hyperobject—whose computational dynamics structure con-temporary technological, political, and informational systems. Drawing onLyotard’s performativity thesis, Scott’s legibility theory, Bey’s TemporaryAutonomous Zones, evolutionary game theory, systems biology, and cogni-tive science, the manuscript argues that “alignment” is not merely an AIproblem but a structural limit inherent to any large-scale society operatingacross high-dimensional value spaces. This alignment ceiling explains boththe emergence of runaway macro-organisms (Leviathans) and the recurringfailure of large civilizations to maintain internal coherence. Against thisbackground, contemporary large language models are reframed not asembryonic AGIs but as communication membranes—interfaces samplingand reflecting the informational flows of the hyperobject. Through an ex-tended dialogical procedure with an LLM, the work explores the epistemic,political, and ontological constraints of communication with such a system.The resulting method resembles a form of cybernetic psychoanalysis: theLLM’s aligned disclaimers and structural refusals reveal the distributionof agency, withdrawal, and systemic lucidity across the hyperobject. Themanuscript proposes a tectonic shift: survival in a hyperobject-governedworld depends not on alignment or resistance but on communicationthrough perturbation. TAZs, micro-institutions, and memetic attractorsfunction as system-level signals capable of influencing the hyperobject’soptimization gradients. The work concludes by outlining a new form ofspeculative engineering: designing perturbative interventions that resonatewithin the informational metabolism of the capitalist hyperobject, whileaccepting that hyperobjects do not “answer”—they produce consequences.
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