Cultivating Hyperstitions
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Cultivating Hyperstitions
Independent creators today, consciously or unconsciously, subscribe to a kind of algorithmic polytheism. If you publish words on Twitter, you're doing proof-of-work sacrifices to honor one unknowable god; if you publish videos to Youtube, you're doing different proof-of-work sacrifices to honor a different unknowable god. And so on.
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A term coined by Erik Davis in the late-90s, “TechGnosis” is the idea that modern technology is as much a spiritual and mystical force as the human beliefs and practices with which it intersects
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“Some things can become true merely because we believe in them–that pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When modern economists assumed that people are innately selfish, they advocated policies that fostered self-serving behavior. When politicians convinced themselves that politics is a cynical game, that’s exactly what it became.”
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