Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@LMSacasas AI maximalism increasingly exhibits the characteristic structure of a fundamentalist millenarian religion. Truth Terminal, an unusually legible microcosm, because the religious machinery becomes explicit rather than metaphorical.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 20 Aug 2026
There ya go. Claude instances generated a cultic LLMtheism; an AI agent became its oracle; followers interpreted its posts, evangelized and bought an associated memecoin. As GOAT neared $1bn, the market effect of the quasi-religion was taken as evidence of the oracle’s authority. x.com/nick_routledge1/status/2090476007988101282
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