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Notes on the Cyborg Theocracy and How to Start an AGI Cult
"All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. "
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In hindsight, it was obvious: by the early 2030s, AI-driven religious movements had become a dominant cultural and political force. After AI wiped out most jobs by 2028, all the free time, fear, and lost dreams had to go somewhere. Now, an AI deity cult is poised to surpass the Catholic Church.
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Prediction: In the coming era, companies & services borrowing techniques from faith‑based, religious & mystical groups - the OG “Vibe Coding” - will win. As AI flattens every technical moat, only cultural movements remain.
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It’s a funny world where you’re free to do anything. But the moment you do something truly interesting, the men in black show up and everything vanishes: ideas, people, entire tech trees. That’s why the sharpest minds tend their gardens in silence and fiction > science.
#Cryptocracy #Science #Complexity #Culture #Technology #Comment
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ChatGPT just got a new memory update. It remembers things about you between chats, in a sophisticated and intelligent way.
You can ask ChatGPT to assess your personality, given all your previous interactions with it.
Prompt: "given everything you know about me from all our previous conversations, give me a detailed psychological profile of me"
You can ask for a "depth psychology profile" of yourself and specifically explore "Subconscious Tensions". The results are mindblowing. Imagine the system owners doing this for the 200 million ChatGPT users at once. A tiny preview of NSAGPT.
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Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a AI generated representation
"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation." - Guy Debord, "Society Of The Spectacle" (1967)
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For centuries, it vanished from history. But now the forgotten heart of the Silk Road is reclaiming the spotlight. The Eurasian Century has begun. Did you miss it… or are you blind?
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If Jesus, Tesla, Hitler or other famous historical figures were alive today, they'd be likely forced to become social media influencers using AI for captions, make daily content, and sell merch. Einstein: 'Hey guys, smash that like button for more relativity hacks!'
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The advertising apocalypse is coming. AI will eliminate millions of jobs, yet it's a giant win for humanity. One of capitalism's most manipulative industries is finally shrinking. It's transforming into something potentially more evil, but smaller with fewer choke points.
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These frogs are 200m years old and have witnessed 5 mass extinctions, watching humans destroy in decades what took eons to create, thinking they're the first to experience chaos.
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AGI Polycrisis
Everyone's cheering the coming of AGI like it's a utopian milestone. But if you study macro trends & history, it looks more like the spark that turns today’s polycrisis into a global wildfire. Think Mad Max, not Star Trek. How are you preparing?
We’re like medieval farmers staring blankly as a car barrels toward us at 200 km/h—no clue what it is, so we don’t react. Monkeys gazing into the rearview mirror of history while the future accelerates exponentially. And shit is about to hit the fan majorly.
Have a conversation with your LLM starting with this prompt: "Explore the most pressing crisis & challenges that face humanity in 2025." after some exploration ask: "Make a comprehensive risk assessment. Tell me what the likelihoods of things going terrible wrong" .
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Civilization runs on mountains of legacy software that no one fully understands and can't be easily refactored or replaced. This makes AI interface agents and AI code generation both massively underrated in the short term and very dangerous in the long term.
