I’ve been monitoring the chaos of the current Zeitgeist… and these thoughts keep rattling around in my head.

We’re living through the downstream effects of microprocessors spawning into our world. 

AI isn’t just a tool. It’s a completely new organism, and the microprocessor might be its RNA.

We have deep problems stemming from the pain of coping with the finiteness of life. We struggle with patience. We worry. We fear. We strive. We love. We hate.

We are all deeply flawed. 

Yet, we are human. 

AI is not. But it still exists. There’s a ‘thingness’ to it. 

AI forces a total restructuring of society. There’s no escaping it. We can’t put the genie back in the bottle. We haven’t invented a calculator; we’ve discovered electricity. The train has left the station, and it's accelerating.

If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back. But you only need to stare once. Even if you turn around, the abyss doesn’t stop staring.

As a result, society’s next chapter will be built around the network. This is the level of analysis at which history begins to make sense. Humans don’t exist in a vacuum. We are locked in a Hegelian dialectic. Hurtling through space, trapped in a dance, like a binary pulsar.

The first hive minds emerging from the chaos are already among us. Many used to be secret. Prophets who pointed them out were called conspiracy theorists. A term crafted in the bowels of the beast... Yet, these organisms are irrefutably connected by one scarce resource: focused human attention.

Human attention has evolved. On first approximation, it seems as though our attention spans are shrinking. However, that’s not quite right. We simply have infinitely more stimuli vying for our attention. The initial survival mechanism was to create a nanometer-thick sheet of attention. But spreading attention thin doesn’t win where we’re going. The evolution has at least one more phase shift.

Winners create gravitational pull within attention space-time. 

Some have figured this out already. They purposefully congregate around specific ways of being in the world. Around ‘memes’. Their congregating energies create a gravitational pull that sinks into a black hole. One that blooms into real-world communities with real-life consequences. The full extent of which likely will remain redacted. 

AI also affects attentional space-time. It too creates a gravitational pull. We are grappling with what this means.

Ultimately, it is from this dimension that reality emerges. And capital and power are tethered to attentional black holes capable of persisting forever.

He who has ears, let him hear. 

This timeline is SPX6900-coded.