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Very Internet Person

"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

The online self may soon be founded upon a squad of agents manifesting simulated identities.

From my latest blog post (link in quoted cast).