@walterkirn Total technology, fully realized, saws through the beam it stands on. The perfected abstraction displaces the legitmacy structure it was meant to witness, mass-producing disbelief. The Powers, perfecting the instrument of their own dissolution, fall first. The Real outlasts them.
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Copy of tweet here: In truth, AI defines but a subset of representative reality losing its authority. The entire Media Picture is fracturing. No less than credibility itself—truth's ontic touchstone—is collapsing as a category. The deeper issue, then? What's it pointing us at? Subtweet: 17/ This is media ecology's deepest point. The trust crisis isn't merely informational, it is ontological. The entire mediation stack—computer-mediated and otherwise—is a world-making apparatus, and generative AI is the threshold event of a universal solvent poured into it.
@JoshHochschild @jeff_bilbro 19/ The trust crisis, then, forces a rediscovery—at once pre-modern and post-digital: truth isn't chiefly a statement to be verified but a metabolic process requiring time, bodies, friction, and cost—a way of living together that reopens the space where truth can appear as truth.
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Copy of tweet here: Essential reading today is you care about what's happening in spirituality work. How Deepak Chopra's AI spirituality is hijacking spiritual hunger Chopra’s AI isn’t an anomaly; it’s the evolutionary endpoint of a global spiritual economy built on mediation—a world system revealing its inner logic precisely as it maxes out its own possibility. And exactly here, the deeper question breaks in. Where, and in whom, is truth? 1/ Notable, the essential 'portability' of dominative religion - the practical shedding of indivisibility with the ground it now hovers above, and the seismic implications such exile from Wholeness effects and requires - so directly correlating with religion's empiric character.