What will come of large language models when they mirror unsettled psyches defined by religious hero complexes into the cloud? We do ourselves and future generations a profound disservice when we choose not to make time to comprehend and interrogate how emerging technologies and narrative flows are being deployed to steer psychological states individually and as holon-based collectives through socio-technical, cyberphysical systems and the tokenized attention economy.
I recognize that rather than being a victim of Substack mania once again, I was merely a reflection of another’s discomfort in the world, an obstacle that gave someone a useful anchor point to exert his will and express his agency, however uninformed and misguided. It’s not a good feeling, but an informative lesson nonetheless.
It’s time to wrap our heads around tokenized spirituality and organized religion. My gut tells me Texas is ground zero for integration of the Drucker-Buford metaverse church model with digital community currencies tied to “moral” markets and social impact “charity” in ATT smart cities designed for community “wellness.”
I don’t think AI should be approached as a digital intercessor for “divine” moral guidance.” I view, web3 systems as linguistic scaffolds quietly mapping the terrain of our souls. Once harvested, our somatic pyschological GPS coordinates can be used ad infinitum to play us like instruments in the coming LARPy animist musical of blockchained cloud minds to solve gnarly problems that can only be untangled by a network of diverse, distributed intelligences – with digital wallets.
Follow your heart, think clearly, and ground yourself. It is easy to get swept away by the Sturm und Drang we generate around ourselves to make the hero roles we inhabit make sense. I’m not going to link to Andrew Corner’s Substack directly, but it’s not hard to find – I’m in the “energy” one. If you go there, fair warning, it’s a slog that’s equal parts disturbing and amusing.
What are we becoming folks? I don’t think the “hybrid” intelligence program is going to be a good look for many of us.
At the end of the day this may very well have simply been another signals-intelligence operation. It doesn’t seem like anyone really pays attention to that Substack anyway. If so, I hope there are at least a few useful take aways regarding how we should engage with this systems.
My Santa Barbara map with Alice Bailey.
My Peter Drucker / Bob Buford map of the origins of the Christian mega-church movement.
My site visits to the Templeton Foundation in Coshohocken, PA – “Money Will Teach You How To Pray”
You have captured the Big Picture network of delusion running rampant in the world–the controllers have succumbed to the “temptations in the wilderness” hook, line and sinker. Sink they will, believing they can outwit God with esoteric black magic. And the churches will need some deep merciful cleansing of what goes on between their members’ “temples”, for those that repent of such collective insanity trapping their minds. Now the Beatitudes make even more sense to those who instead know that their weakness before God is their strength which endureth forever with love, joy, hope, faith, and peace grounded in “knowledge” that hath no words to fully describe for some AI humanoid to compute.
Ok, so are you a member of a particular faith community? If so have you set up a time to talk about the leaders of it with respect to social impact finance and web3 tokenization. So much easier to call it “eosteric black magic” then you get off scott free not having to do anything. Your comment is sadly in alignment with the dumbed-down evangelism I was interrogating. Stop it. Just stop. Do the work to understand what we are in and stand up for your faith to address it. Do your part.
What??? Please delete my comment (so sorry I bothered to honor your work) and I will surely STOP any future commenting. Thanks.
I take that to mean that you have no intention of conveying this broader context within your chosen faith. So be it. I’m not here to be “honored.” I’m here to provide actionable intelligence on important social issues.
only replying so that maybe you can rebalance yourself by correcting your gross assumptions.
I don’t have a visible faith community to talk to but I do have an appeal in my state Supreme Court in which it will be reviewing one of my documents containing a reference to your research. I may even being doing so again in my next brief, “actionable intelligence” enough!
Again, sorry to “honor” your work, didn’t realize it was a “sin.” Now I better find a church to go confess how horrible I was…maybe I’ll get a token for improved behavior. My penance will be never to comment again.
You sure seemed to have a lot of opinions about churches now didn’t you?