Hmm it’s like your idea that alt accounts represent the rise of a new kind of bicameral mind where we’re the god-like voices inside multiple artificial digital heads. Except artificial digital heads == chimp descendants
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I just had an insight this morning about trust, relationships, and generative networks.. which leads me to think that such a network of a alt-accounts won’t yield anything interesting until there is a way for them to form *trustful* relations, whatever “trust” means at that level
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Did you watch the first season of West World? Firmly grounded in Jayne’s ideas, but was enjoyable without having to be aware of them at all.
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Westworld raises and beautifully articulates many interlocking questions of identity, memory, consciousness, agency, and the essence of the human experience. Absolutely fantastic.
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Love it. Reminiscent of Peter Watt’s vision/question in Blindsight, namely, what if alien hyper intelligence is a hive mind and *not* a unified singular conscious experience? Stapleton has a very light version of this in Starmaker as well.
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(In contrast, Lem’s Solaris contemplates alien mega-mind as literally a planet-sized brain)
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This reminds me of one of the less cringe worthy Terence McKenna lectures on timewave zero.
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Just googled “Timewave zero”. Wow.
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Destiny of the Endless turns out to be Hari Seldon’s projection
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Wild thought, huh?