A chat on why the internet is so fucking weird right now, creator slop, quantum theory, Carl Sagan, and what song you'd listen to on a walk
Vey cool interview (Y) about Internet folklore, authoriality and narratives the AI era, quantum theory, other dimensions, post turbo capitalism. I think about this stuff almost all the time, but everything is shifting so fast I find it hard to draw connections. This text kind of puts everything closer to somewhere lol. Here some extracts that I like:
The way we register an image is this flattened form that is image, text, and performance, all at once. This malleability of form has irreversibly changed the way we communicate.I like that feeling of nonlinearity because it means things are less static. Their meaning is less fixed. If we can find ways to wield that energy in a way that isn’t being usurped by the people building these platforms and their incentives, then this second-order oral culture has a lot of cool mythmaking potential.
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Ever since the internet came about, everyone feels like there’s a paradigm shift around the corner. The reason we’re feeling this is because the way we naturally interact with each other online is fluid, relational, changing. It’s not coming from point A to point B. Everything is supporting each other’s growth, coming at us from every angle.
That feels very aligned with the principles quantum theory is voicing, which is backed by actual empirical research. Scientifically, it’s proven that we live in a quantum reality, even though we can’t necessarily access all the other realities around us. They live in this other layer, but they’re always there.
I also agree on choosing Massive Attack's dissolved girl for my walk on the moon but also I'd probably choose this live that is literally set on the moon.