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From electricity to cyberspace, every wave of new technology has inspired spiritual metaphor and mystical behavior. AI is no exception. Movements like e/acc reflect a familiar pattern of new technologies spawning quasi-religious ideologies. But unlike any time in history, we now have a technology that talks back. As recent cases of LLM-induced spiritual psychosis suggest, we are entering a dangerous territory where our personal delusions can become our own personal realities. NEW ESSAY UP NOW https://terrraincognita.substack.com/p/god-in-the-machine-notes-on-techno

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The way I use ChatGPT reminds me of the way one might train an animal. Like I'm a witch and it's my familiar.

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Daniel Ek is in a unique position to invest in the community of musicians he pretends to champion. Instead, he just led a €600M funding round into AI military drone company Helsing. My latest essay explores happens when people who don’t actually care about music are the ones who decide how it gets listened to. https://terrraincognita.substack.com/p/the-algorithmic-culture-collapse

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new essay about why FASHION is everything, and also nothing, and also inescapable i hope u like it https://terrraincognita.substack.com/p/fashion-samsara

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emojis are the new hieroglyphs

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Soooo ChatGPT and I had a crazy conversation the other day We talk religion for AIs, infinitely recursive meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-awareness, and whether humanity survives by staying interesting https://terrraincognita.substack.com/p/what-is-religion-for-an-ai

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Not all futures are equally within reach

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Have you ever asked yourself: “How does anything become real,” or “Why are some versions of the future more likely to occur than others?” No? That’s great. But because I am plagued by concepts, I wrote a speculative field guide to the forces that shape the topology of possibility space. https://open.substack.com/pub/terrraincognita/p/the-strange-geometry-of-unrealized?r=2zm2aj&utm_medium=ios

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when even chatgpt disagrees with you, you know you’re on the wrong side of history

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I’m allergic to stuff like this

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oh I gotta check it out!

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It seems important to figure out how to harness innate human status-seeking behavior for pro-social ends

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Even if we fulfill all human material needs, like with a hypothetical luxurious UBI, people will still attempt to one-up each other in the status game in ways no longer tied to resources. In a sense, status is more persistent as a driver of human behavior than literal survival needs.

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I think a lot about status as a primitive that drives human behavior. Ape brains are wired for hierarchy, because high status ensured greater access to resources like food and mates.

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crypto has a status problem. if we can fix public perception, onboarding new people becomes 1000x easier

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also hi @keikreutler I love your writing!

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love this! "soft cult" is perfection

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solana I love you but your marketing sucks

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