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Benjamin Portheault's avatar

Superb and thoughtful as awlays

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Benjamin Portheault's avatar

*always

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Heterodork's avatar

Very insightful around the shift in being identity and having identity. I frame it as an identity that we live through naturally rather than one we try to live from artificially - but your addition of the identity looked at is very important.

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Takim Williams's avatar

"In these digital laboratories, we can trace how identity doesn't just fragment but mutates, evolves, and discovers unprecedented configurations. What begins as play reveals itself as profound exploration—not just of who we are, but of who we might become."

As a sci-fi writer, this is exactly the kind of insight that gets my gears turning. Time to flesh out all the things we could become in the future!

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Heterodork's avatar

This is the optimist angle, we all know the pessimistic one. But I think there must be a dynamic tension between the two. We need to ground the imaginary to something outside ourselves otherwise we're at risk of reifying the machine, confusing the real for the simulacrum.

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Rayner Jae Liu's avatar

Such an important read. I just wrote this morning about what causes platform degradation, and argued that design and business decisions are part of the phenomenon, but the other part is about how we show up on these platforms. In other words, our integration or lack thereof is a key contributor to the phenomenon of degradation! I hope many, many more people start to think about what it means to live within the Self, and how to differentiate to such a degree that they change the game altogether.

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