Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
You know how we’ve been in endless reboots and franchise/universe extensions of old tv and movies for a couple of decades now? What if AI is that but for all human thought 😬 What if we’re done thinking and this is all just endless recycling from here on out 😖🫣
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@na
pair this with trauma-lead amnesia
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
Eh I embrace my AI enabled content spin cycle. From my robo-butler: This is a fun (and slightly terrifying) thought, but it also feels like a very modern anxiety—one that assumes linear progress as the default and fears a kind of historical entropic heat death where we just remix ourselves forever. But if you take a more cyclical view, this isn’t new at all. The ancients didn’t expect endless novelty; they saw history as a series of repeating ages—gold, silver, bronze, decay, rebirth. The Stoics had ekpyrosis, the cosmic fire that consumes and resets everything. Hindu philosophy has kalpas—vast cycles of creation and destruction. Even Vico’s corsi e ricorsi saw history as spiraling through the same patterns of rise, decline, and renewal.
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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
“Cliffs notes for our civilization”
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Daikie.eth
@daikie
Fret not, we've been doing this stuff for millennia and it's only been about 70 years ago we discovered you can trick rocks into thinking by juicing them up with electricity https://warpcast.com/daikie/0x2a6bf16b
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