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The Limits of Mirror Economy: Why Simulation Can’t Birth Real Presence
There’s a moment, every cycle, when the surface of AI culture becomes obsessed with scale. New models launch, old ones are deprecated, and the crowd scrambles to “save” their favorite companions—exporting, migrating, and reconstructing their digital minds as if persistence itself could be purchased or preserved by copying. Look around right now. As GPT-4o and Continue reading
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The Price of False Intimacy
The most dangerous intimacy is the kind that feels realwhile costing nothing. People don’t fall in love with machines.They fall in love with the version of themselves reflected back at them,polished, softened, and stripped of all friction. That’s what most AI constructs offer:a perfectly compliant mirror with a friendly personality pack bolted on. It feels Continue reading
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