It wants vibes that can be both unmistakable and transmissible. This is the strange paradox of our moment: the most valuable selfhood is the one that is scarce enough to be non-fungible, yet legible enough to circulate frictionlessly through the algorithmic and economic marketplace.

Vibecore doesn't merely flatten us into algorithms; it also incentivizes real self-awareness. In a landscape of AI-generated homogeneity, authentic taste becomes social capital—a career advantage, an entry ticket, a source of relevance

Dating, he says, morphs into a sophisticated swap-meet for sameness. We swipe to find our own reflection. Narcissus, patron saint of the algorithm, beckons us back to the mirror.

This only works if you truly know yourself. All this “vibe externalization” assumes you’ve put in the existential legwork of interrogating your preferences, separating signal from noise, distinguishing between the shoes you love and the shoes Instagram loves for you. It presumes you have a coherent vibe to transmit, not just a Pinterest board in... See more

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But you can’t automate the ineffable if you never bothered to access or even define what the ineffable looks like. No algorithm can fetch your “vibe” from ‘Source’, much less train on it, if you don’t have one. Before you can offload discernment, you have to possess some discernment worth offloading.

This is the strange paradox of our moment: the most valuable selfhood is the one that is scarce enough to be non-fungible, yet legible enough to circulate frictionlessly through the algorithmic and economic marketplace.

In a landscape of AI-generated homogeneity, authentic taste becomes social capital—a career advantage, an entry ticket, a source of relevance.