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Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
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We belong to times far more than we belong to places. We just don’t realize it because we can’t travel in time and can never see our time from the perspective of another. - vgr
The new technologist believes in the power of good critique. It is not hostile to interrogate each other’s ideas, products, or goals.
“It’s not just you prompting the LLM, but also the LLM as a prompt reversibly triggers your imagination and creativity…
Again, the role of the LLM here, in Stanley’s view, is largely to present you with a palette of options.
So what’s happening in between, then? What’s happening while you’re redoing it over and over again, prompting the LLMs and
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Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies. Superstitions are merely false beliefs, but hyperstitions — by their very existence as ideas — function causally to bring about their own reality.
Cultivating Hyperstitions
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The Lifestyle era was not about creating culture; it was about attaching brands onto existing cultural contexts. It was not about shaping people; it was about sorting consumer demographics into niche categories. The new order we are entering into reverses this. For some organizations, culture has become the product itself, and products have become
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A protocol is a relatively simple and codified set of behaviors that, when adopted by a sufficient number of participants (human and/or artificial) in a situation, reliably leads to good-enough outcomes for all.