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"The Remarkable Life of Ibelin" is a deeply moving documentary on Netflix about the life of a World of Warcraft player. I watched it while cooped up in an overnight bus in Peru, and it spurred a lot of reflections regarding the general phenomenon of life online and my personal digital identities. Penned down some further thoughts about how I think our sense of self is likely to further fragment and be taken on weirder tangents in the future, as technologies like digital properties (aka NFTs) become enshrined and AI agents start simulating our very selves. Sharing my essay here in case there's any interest! https://mirror.xyz/buffets.eth/czuDG6cYCiF4SThIgC_P1EyMmABSvv3_w3Q0IAk1tXg
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thanks for sharing! it's interesting to think about fragmentation of identity online with ai doubles. i tend to think of the internet as also a place where u can experiment to find and experience yourself (ie. since the early days, ppl use it as a place to explore niche interests and self-expression that they may not be able to irl.) so having an agent be a version u kind of leaves out that actual experience u may get from the simulations ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Yes, you have a good point! I see it as part of the classic breadth vs. depth conundrum—deploying simulations of yourself to do things online will enhance the former but not the latter, since what you gain in terms of being able to experiment with more personas and pathways online, you lose by not actually having the moment-to-moment experience of actually doing the thing yourself. To me, where such simulated selves may be optimal is to do things lower on one's priority list, things that you wouldn't have time or inclination anyway, but still have some slight interest. Basically, these simulations can help to expand the latent space for your being (by establishing various trailheads), but you'll still need to work to ensure that it has depth (by actually going down a particular trail of your choosing and living that out).
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exactly. i played with cursor for a little bit for my coding but quickly realized that all it did was give me a headache bc while i could code faster, i wasn't actually learning or enjoying much and i was spending more time as a manager fixing its mistakes. i was just jumping from prompt to prompt in a weird fugue state. somehow the roles reversed and the machine became the creator and the human became the autocorrect (๑>ᴗ<๑) and while i had the code in the end, it left me empty of the feeling of satisfaction in creating something. so i stopped using it for most things and only really use it now if i have time intensive menial tasks to offload (⌒_⌒;) i think the part u wrote about scaling up a person's ability is good. it's important that the tools augment rather than replace the experiences we are able to have.
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