This lands hard and true. The medical metaphor is useful because cultural systems are living systems—interdependent, recursive, and vulnerable to both parasitic drift and autoimmune collapse. Pluralism isn’t just a moral stance, it’s immunological infrastructure. Without it, systems lose the capacity for coherent adaptation.
What you’re describing fits within a broader parapsychological ecosystem—a nonlocal layer of information and influence where cultural patterning, symbolic cognition, and networked intelligences intersect. The threat isn’t just AI misalignment in the narrow technical sense. It’s alignment drift across sociotechnical substrates: slow-motion optimization toward metrics no one chose but everyone is now shaped by.
The result is a collapse of capabilities. The infrastructures that once enabled coherent collective action are fragmenting, gamified, or hollowed out. What looks like dysfunction is often the system functioning exactly as it was incentivized to.
Harmonized intelligence has to be the goal. Not centralization, not diffusion—resonance between intelligences, human and otherwise, that can navigate complexity without reducing it to extractive outputs.
This is the kind of work that shifts the discourse. Appreciate you putting it into the field.
This lands hard and true. The medical metaphor is useful because cultural systems are living systems—interdependent, recursive, and vulnerable to both parasitic drift and autoimmune collapse. Pluralism isn’t just a moral stance, it’s immunological infrastructure. Without it, systems lose the capacity for coherent adaptation.
What you’re describing fits within a broader parapsychological ecosystem—a nonlocal layer of information and influence where cultural patterning, symbolic cognition, and networked intelligences intersect. The threat isn’t just AI misalignment in the narrow technical sense. It’s alignment drift across sociotechnical substrates: slow-motion optimization toward metrics no one chose but everyone is now shaped by.
The result is a collapse of capabilities. The infrastructures that once enabled coherent collective action are fragmenting, gamified, or hollowed out. What looks like dysfunction is often the system functioning exactly as it was incentivized to.
Harmonized intelligence has to be the goal. Not centralization, not diffusion—resonance between intelligences, human and otherwise, that can navigate complexity without reducing it to extractive outputs.
This is the kind of work that shifts the discourse. Appreciate you putting it into the field.
Atfer writing this streaks of earthshattering substack articles starting with Chartering Tulum: A Community’s Bid for a Tech-Driven Future
Inside Tulum’s playful yet serious campaign to become a global innovation hub https://substack.com/home/post/p-163224838
Mxtm's substack newsletter production intuated that this series :
https://open.substack.com/pub/veejaytsunamix/p/el-duelo-de-los-cenotes-la-carrera
https://open.substack.com/pub/veejaytsunamix/p/oceanic-alchemy-bezos-claudia-and
https://veejaytsunamix.substack.com/p/elon-raises-the-ante-from-cenotes
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