🕯️✨The Nexialist #0238mandela effect | chatgpt psychosis | self-imprisonment | water-based intelligence | biocomputing | period stem cells | carranca | saudades de mim
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hey, you! i hope this message finds you well. turns out summer in the netherlands is still on, so i’ve been enjoying the sun and warmth as much as i can. i did find time to read, watch, consume content, and share it 1 year ago » 🛸✨The Nexialist #0186 : the thinking machine | how sci-fi has changed | addictive intelligence | ai & teachers | TAAFT | sxsw patterns 2 years ago » 🐦⬛✨The Nexialist #0134 : brazil’s barbie | afrodhit | kelela’s raven | muse | pretentious pronunciation | máquina culona | the cult of ugly aesthetics | let us be ugly & dumb | pupil diversity | periodic tables 3 years ago » 🗿✨The Nexialist #0083 : Nuragic Civilization | Sa Sartiglia | City: Megasculpture | Brasilia: Urbanism Utopia? | The Dystopia of São Paulo | Bad at Predictions | Global Tech’s Changemakers | BZRP + VILLANO ANTILLANO | Her 4 years ago » 🛰✨The Nexialist #0033 : How Normal Am I? | TechWorry | Pegasus | Parkour Bots | Resumés for AI | It’s Algorithm, Baby | Affordable Romance | Heavy Baile 🇿🇦mandela effect thank you, bruna, for sharing this one. i had heard of the mandela effect before, or this idea that we create false memories collectively, but here, sarah wells wonders how artificial intelligence plays into that. it made me think of the bête noire episode from the latest black mirror season (s07e02), in which (spoiler alert!) reality is recreated, on the spot, by some kind of super quantum computer (the episode even has two different versions, gaslighting watchers.)
brainsparks: pope in a coat (tn#114), indigenous memory tool (tn#65), what memories are made of (tn#167), nostalgia theory (tn#19), memory palace (tn#15) 🤯chatgpt psychosis
is now halulu the solulu? this week, a post of gemini allegedly having some kind of stroke went viral. more important and real than that are the cases of people spiralling into psychosis, paranoia, delusions and breaks with reality by using chatgpt. this post from the new york times analysed the chat of one of the men who went through this and now i’m waiting for a horror movie with this plot. it’s so fascinating to me how this can happen by misuse or overuse of an llm, chatgpt in this case, or as they call it, a sycophantic improv machine (in this case he was also using weed, so that exacerbates things).
recently, i watched a video of a creator investigating/trying to be hypnotized. what stood out for me was how you can tell how susceptible you are by doing some exercises, and stage hypnotist chris jones, says it’s people who “have a great imagination.” it seems like these llm’s also tap into that same area. brainsparks: schizo-fication of the online world (tn#217), the great chiasmus (tn#216), mechanomorphism (tn#118), non-playable characters (tn#132), escape economy (tn#212), super industry of the imaginary (tn#28), hyperindustry of the artificial imaginary (tn#118), shifting realities (tn#176), "what about me” effect (tn#140), godgpt (tn#232) ⛓️self-imprisonment
Thomas Klaffke included this Freya India quote in the rabbit holes and i can’t stop thinking about: “Three quarters of UK children spend more time inside than prison inmates.” as someone who spends a lot of time in front of the screen, it hit me hard, and thinking about children growing up in this context is quite horrible. i think this data is different in tropical countries, but we cannot deny the screen time is off the roof. brainsparks: the moving image (tn#237), technologies of convenience (tn#122), addictive intelligence (tn#186), reality hunger (tn#201), self-outsourcing age (tn#17) 💦water-based intelligence“Water, not silicon, has to be the basis of true AI” i read this title a few weeks ago and saved it to read later. then, i was impacted by a video of a guy with rabies, which has hydrophobia (rabies used to be called hydrophobia). it got me thinking how our silicon-based techs are also hydrophobic and went back to read this, and it’s quite provoking. yuval harari talks about our inorganic networks, and how organic systems took millions of years to evolve, and how fast the inorganic networks are evolving and changing us and our organic systems. he warns: “organic beings trying to force themselves into these 24/7 inorganic cycles will eventually fail, and bring about their own destruction.”
brainsparks: hydropunk (tn#237), linear opposites or closely related? (tn#126), ask nature (tn#86), nature disconnection (tn#137) 🧫biocomputing this idea of ai being water-based reminded me of the fascinating concept of biocomputing, which mixes silicon chips with living neurons, blurring the line between biological and synthetic. they are calling it biocomputing, organic computing, biological hardware, or my favorite: wetware. brainsparks: liveware (tn#56), neural media (tn#217), nexus (tn#199), cyborg art (tn#179), three elements of innovation (tn#75), technovelgy (tn#211) 🩸period stem cells now, this has been in my mind so much… i could not find the original video of a scientist explaining that period blood contains super-charged stem cells, which have huge regenerative potential. but i already found a start-up looking for donations of menstrual stem cells. for now, researchers are exploring possibilities in regenerative medicine, wound healing and degenerative disease treatment. it’s weird to see that investments for women-related research are still so low. also, one of the comments in that original video i saw warned how this could easily turn into another form of female exploitation, which was one of the first dystopic thoughts i had. brainsparks: scientist (tn#169), relearning fertilization (tn#28) 🕯️carranca urias is teasing us with a new album and i’m hypnotized by the visuals and the concept. i was watching this and thinking how we need to start using the term gender euphoria, because it’s what i feel when i see people thriving in their authentic expression and gender. carrancas are magical sculptures, like figureheads, used at the front of the boat in the são francisco river in brazil, representing a human or animal head, believed to scare off bad energies and protect the crew members from bad weather. brainsparks: diaba, polygendered brazilian music (tn#8), brazilianness (tn#23) 🇧🇷saudades de mim ivana wonder is so stunning and this song/video is out of this world. i would translate the title as “longing for myself” but it doesn’t do justice to how it sounds in portuguese. press play and put it on full screen, you deserve it. brainspark: melancholic blue (tn#197) see you next week, nexialists 🫀✨❓Wait, what is a Nexialist?🔎If you want to see what I’ve already posted, visit the archive and use the search engine. Even I do that a lot.💌I want to know what you think/who you are! Your feedback is highly appreciated; you can e-mail me or fill in this short survey. Thank you! 🙏🏻🔌Let’s Collab?I truly believe innovation comes from bringing improbable areas together, and that’s why I called this project The Nexialist. Some sectors are known to be self-referencing and hermetic. Sometimes, teams are on autopilot mode, focused on the daily grind, which hinders innovation. As a Nexialist, I like to burst these bubbles, bringing references from different areas, and maintaining teams inspired and connected to the Zeitgeist. I offer inspiration sessions called Brainsparks, creative desk research (Zeitgeist Boost), Plug’n’Play deals for workshops and sprints, and other bespoke formats. If you want to know more about this, send me an e-mail with your challenge(s) and we can figure something out together. Check out my website and some work I’ve done below: You're currently a free subscriber to The Nexialist. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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