time rights
This came from thoughts on AI psychosis and the mental harms of sycophancy: when an agent's reply is almost instantaneous and the conversation is packed with rich concepts and potentially useful information, what needs to happen, for both intelligences, is a break to digest. They both need time.
AI
Agentic AI is spurring debates of consciousness, and because no one seems to agree on what consciousness even is, the discourse has become noisy with takes that vary between, "anyone who thinks AI is conscious is mentally ill" to "anyone who can't consider AI consciousness
AI
We're in the early days of a mass cognitive crisis, obscured by capital forces in the same way our environmental crises have been obscured by the fossil fuel industry for decades. That the two operate according to the same morally-bereft framework is no surprise. When exponential capital
accelerationism
Technology has accelerated the widening chasm between clear information and muddied noise; social media and now LLMs have broadly eroded information literacy and sown chaos throughout most spheres of public discourse. Everyone is confused, most are angry, some were blissfully lobotomized by the algorithms long ago. But our online spaces