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We write to the machine, it collects and aggregates our desires and fantasies, segments them by market and demographic and sells them back to us as a commodity experience.
Richard Seymour • The Twittering Machine
An egregore (or egregor) is a concept in occult and esoteric traditions referring to a collective group mind or a thought form created by the combined thoughts and emotions of a group of people. The idea is that when individuals focus their intentions and energies together, they can create a powerful, autonomous psychic entity that influences and g
... See moreSynthesis: The Network/God One important synthesis that deserves special mention is the “Network/God”: a Network God, an AI God, a GPT-9 or DALL·E 10 that gives instant, superhuman answers to difficult questions using the knowledge of all of humanity. After all, people already do confide to Google as if it were God, or at least a confessions booth.
... See moreBalaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Many people don't consider that when they use the internet, be that making a simple HTML/CSS site, or using a site through a big conglomerate, scrapers are scraping and crawlers are crawling the content unless you've specifically configured robots.txt and no-index rules to prevent it.