Cold healing used to curate Tik Tok screenshots. Yesterday he sold his account to an insurance company. People wrote tweets about their thoughts, and then young people without thoughts became aggregators, and now the commons are mostly advertising.
Paid organic content is lapping at the sides of a slow, bubbling, room filling with ooze: we’re auctioning 100% of your thoughts to the machine! Sure, 70% of your Instagram feed is paid ads, but we’re wasting 30%! The Meta lawsuit is hilarious: “Meta allegedly deceiving the public by targeting children on Facebook with technology designed to turn them into compulsive users”. It’s like suing Cyclops for eating people.
Loud singularities are more exciting to fantasize about, bloody fantasies of an ancient world. Bioweapons. Terrorism! But we’ve mostly arrived. The final accelerationists have left OpenAI to build surgically implanted brain computer interfaces. Wearables are too slow for the last step.
I’m not sure what we call mimetic desire when you mimic a neural net. You’ve just slowly opted out of being a person. Dario essays read as: “everyone else has been rendered nonhuman already; we will rule them justly”
You can reason inductively from keep4o toward a more passive, morphine singularity. Eventually the machine absorbs you.