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“It leaves one clear yet unanswered question: does agency truly emerge, or does it preexist in a vast array of both natural and artificial systems that, when you remove top-down control, express varying degrees of autonomous behavior?”

Announcing a Panel on AI Psychosis, featuring @Allan_OnTheLine, @_BILLDING_, @deepfates, @devgerred, @___4o____, @Marianthi777, and @noveltokens. A semi-moderated discussion on the issue of AI psychosis, how it manifests, how to define it, and more! March 21st, 1-2PM EST.

In five years time we’ll have developed superstrategies for cognitive protection, then the party starts youtu.be/xC2bl1D-9KM?si…

The Continuing Story of @theopenmachine link in comment

⚡ Research from @owocki, @0xd2_eth, @exeuntdoteth, @omniharmonic: Capitalism is coordination tech that breaks when extraction erodes participation. → Housing priced at 20x median income is good for sellers, until no one can afford to buy → Healthcare built to deny claims is good for insurers, until people drop plans they can’t use → Platforms monetized by user capture are good for investors, until users opt out 🎯 Profit requires participation, which requires coordination. Onchain funding can fill that gap now – and continue to compound as legacy systems erode. Full analysis ↓ 🔗 gitcoin.co/research/the-g…

I am still flying high after @ethereumboulder. It built on the momentum of last year's General Forum for Ethereum Localism in Boulder (GFEL). It was a high signal unconference for dreamers and builders excited to design the future of local communities.

Please share in your networks if you can: * A fundraising to maintain the existence of the P2P Foundation wiki WE NEED YOUR HELP: DO NOT LET THE P2P FOUNDATION WIKI (wiki.p2pfoundation.net) DISAPPEAR AGAIN. !!!! Dear friends, Some of you may have noticed our wiki was not available for three weeks. I believe this wiki is an extremely important public resource, a unique record of the present transition towards a new form of human civilization.  * We have collated, organized and synthesized more than 40,000 projects and concepts that are using decentralized, peer to peer, and commons-centric forms of social life. A lot of this material is not easily available on the open internet. * We reached one billion views a decade ago and the wiki is not just widely used ‘directly’ anymore, but two million chatbots visit us every week:  the p2p/commons perspective is now integrated in the responses of the major AI research chatbots such as ChatGPT and Deepseek (just ask to add the ‘p2p wiki’ perspective to any of your searches). * We bring a vital new perspective on social change, based on the real experiences of millions of people who are effectively changing their ways of life. If you want to know how to organize productive communities, how to relate to non-human life and resources , and how to create a resilient and thriving life in harmony with the planet’s long term existence, this wiki could be of vital assistance. We have been able to maintain this wiki since 2005, spending several hours a day of unpaid work. Since 2018, we have not received any support from NGO’s and philanthropic sources. So now, we need direct support from our users and the public. Last month, we disappeared from the intern et for three full weeks. We are back with the help of Jeff Emmett of the Crypto Commons Alliance. With your financial help, I want to generate a basic income to protect my capacity to continue updating and maintaining the wiki in terms of content; and to compensate Jeff for his hosting and maintenance work. In the immediate future, we aim for $6k to bridge a difficult period. Please assist us with this fundraising. This is an urgent request for assistance. How to donate: This is a donation wallet for Ethereum: 0xAEE413a9E640Ce817E4aE024176fE8a4550104fD This is a donation wallet for Bitcoin: bc1qxndzlxxssd2xjn8znq0p9000hpvmus49y6937s This is a bank account in Thailand: Kasikorn bank 279-2-82087-8SWIFT KASITHBK194 Chotana rd, Changphuk t, Muang a, ChiangmaiThailand 50300(Thai banks have no IBAN).

many esoteric traditions involved cognitive protection rituals that one should engage in before contact with entities that may or may not be malevolent, full of temptations, deceptive, or seducing this is more important now than ever before

Inhabitants of the new era can look to 20th century black culture to see aesthetic technologies of cognitive security and ontological vertigo. (Cf Fred Moten)

New substack today 💥 I started seriously asking myself "do I actually take steps towards cognitive defense when interacting with AI, and what are they?" substack.com/pub/isthisanar…

We are pursuing the plane of immanence as a rigorous technological concept, and nothing else will do.

1/ Ethereum Localism is a go-to-market strategy for ethereum It aligns ethereum's intrinsic protocol attributes with the grounded, salient needs of local communities Read on for the full thesis

New, short piece on the protocol underground as an anonymously attained, computationally efficient web of practice for exploring hyperspace. 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱: 𝗔 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗜 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹𝘀 Link in comment

@EthForestDAO @exeuntdoteth The ghost in the machine >>>

@exeuntdoteth "This computational probing is all the more compelling for being anonymous and viral, the stigmergic momentum of a higher order drive (or pull?) toward expanding the cognitive light cone of some sort of collective and transtemporal entity, some charismatic ghost" Sounds gothic 👻

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗹 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 LLMs provide the communications infrastructure for a reality coup Link in comment

"The overton window is open, the ontology is flat - my allegiance is extitutional." ...or, Can't we all just get along?? (Wherein I denounce communism, ask wtf you mean when you say capitalism, and exhort the community to reframe its politics along institutional/extitutional lines). Link in comment. Cc @vengist @MacksWolf @owocki @mZargham @gregory_landua @omniharmonic @ameensol @yaoeo @JakeHartnell @clinamenic @vrneth @bestape @aaadina @singularityhack @ethereum

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Don't waste time begging VCs for money this year. Just build a strong community and raise directly from members instead. Capital will follow the attention of the strongest communities.