Hell is ourselves
Peak solipsism and the algorithmic hall of mirrors
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I am confronted by the idea that the the eventual effects of artificial intelligence may result to the peak solipsism that humanity will ever experience. This solipsism feels like a looming desire above everyone's head that stems from the fueled desire for self-gratification brought by social media. The algorithm confirms only the values of the self, an interconnecting web of mirrors that traps the ego at its center. A web of self-delusions that cannot be penetrated by any foreign consciousness.
We will become men living in our own islands, resulting in an accidental isolation apart from everyone else: pure individualism without the external avenue for criticism and regulation. The self becomes God.
How it's been read
From readings, counted anonymously: time with the page open, and the furthest movement reached.
Where this note sits
- mentioned in how the world is continually desiring to deny its own humanity · Self-dehumanization without our consent
- mentioned in 2025-03-28
- echoes 2025-01-08
- echoes The Cosmic Failure of a Creator · Artificial intelligence and the Promethean trap
- echoes Technology and its Discontents
- echoes 2025-01-04 · On machines that lie
- echoes The World is as Hostile as the Morning
- thread · life a small glossary about the weight of loss
- thread · life A month in the trenches · The knot of incompatible selves
- thread · life Algorithmic realities · A question that assumes a world
