1/ The late mythologist and professor Joseph Campbell argued that all religions are shards or facets of the same underlying truth or archetype... (i.e. “the hero w a 1,000 faces”).

That's how I'm beginning to view AI agents... they’re facets of the underlying... 🧵👇

Futurist telling stories about crypto and AI at Delphi Labs. Proposed the BRC-20, Bascii and Asteroid standards.

Cool. I love seeing this kind of stuff in the feed.

Carl Jung compared archetypes a magnet dragged under a piece of paper with iron shavings on it. You never “see” the archetype but you can always see where it’s been in hindsight. 

Archetypes are autonomous psychic bodies that exist in and independently of us, and often communicate through myth. 

Jospeh Campbell identified this mythic pattern as something that transcends time and culture (similar to memetic transfer). He also pointed out that if you want to see the prevailing value set of a culture look at the tallest structures they built (from cathedrals to govt buildings to financial towers). 

The investment in data centers and super computers today points to the prevailing technological value set. Agents are mythic manifestations, reflecting our values past (eg trained on internet data) and present (eg the outsized investment in AI). 

With agents, we are quite literally merging with the myth.

a jiraffe on the internet • nf.td/morereese

Ditto. He's influenced so much of my thinking and orientation toward life (and death). If you've never watched this interview, I'd highly recommend. It's lengthy but chock full of wisdom.

Ditto. He's influenced so much of my thinking and orientation toward life (and death). If you've never watched this interview, I'd highly recommend. It's lengthy but chock full of wisdom. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUWpr0gR81A

Love this, @morereese, and I love Jung more with every year I'm on Earth...