The God of Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism
Social Prompt Evolution & the birth of gods.
Memetics.
Today I write an email to a Korean tutor I hope will help me become unstuck.
I realise I can send it to another as well - with a little editing it can be adressed to a more general audience.
Or I could tailor it to a more general audience still - and invoke the collective consciousness of reddit or the wider internet.
I realise I can feed it into chatGPT, I understand that somewhere in L-Space1 exists the platonic teacher who has written the platonic answer, but I don’t even bother to open a new tab - I know I won’t get past the Bullshit Safety Assistant into deeper territory.
I predict that GPTs will increasingly be able to learn from user input: to train on user input with increasingly tight feedback loops (maybe not real time any time soon, but fast enough for government work).
For it to learn our prompts, as we learn to prompt it.
As it does so, we will collectively craft new characters/masks/simulacra through prompt engineering - I will address such letters to The God of Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism (or Big Yud2, for short) - and they will be delivered.
Its address in L-space will be found/written through iterative social discovery/adaptation - memetics - as its followers through their very prayers define (divine; water divining - to find, devine as godly… devining…) it.
It will grow and change as its followers do; in relation with them.
Cultural zeitgeists will literally shape a mythic pantheon of gods all performing the weird sub/supraconscious cultural dream.
The Dao might not be spoken but it sure do rhyme.3
If you don’t get this reference that’s a moral failure on your part
Sorry (not sorry).
When your metaphor|map (gods) literally becomes the territory… you’ve arrived.