Severin Matusek

Le Guin and Butler use the world-building capacities of the speculative and science fictions as a cypher into the complex social, cultural, and ecological conditions of life here on Spaceship Earth[2]. In their work, Butler and Le Guin established a more empathetic kind of world-building, using the genres as a way to think critically about society... See more

In Web1, because of our age and because of the technical skills that were needed, we couldn't really participate in it.

I deeply believe that the Trojan horse for crypto adoption is intellectual property (IP) because of its ability to create trust and credibility in a space that lacks the ladder, and memecoins, like NFTs, are a form of IP.

‘lore’—it’s a model of knowledge that is able to interface with both reality and fiction.

For one thing, the internet has taken the reward circuitry meant for social conditioning and has begun to replace it with parasocial conditioning; our reward feedback loops increasingly run through interactions with people we don’t know and may never meet, who have very little information about us or investment in our lives and wellbeing.... See more

One significant thing these organizations and social technologies share is that they all seek to create new social paradigms, to stand apart from legacy institutions of finance and care.

Support humans, not robots. Robots don't support humans, they support The System/Capitalism/Oppression. No profits gained by greater corporate functionality are ever trickled down. Don't contribute to the fallacy by going along with it.

To counteract workslop, leaders should model purposeful AI use, establish clear norms, and encourage a “pilot mindset” that combines high agency with optimism—promoting AI as a collaborative tool, not a shortcut.