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Next we bring in creative divergence. How? **Geists!** Geists will be little bots that live in your Subconscious. They’ll do useful things… finding connections between notes, remixing notes, issuing oracular provocations and gnomic utterances.
Designing User Interfaces With Bots Not Buttons
Matt Webb
Starting in the summer of 2020 and peaking in late 2021, various factors conspired to create an economy gone wild: direct-check COVID relief, money printer gone brrrrr, a crypto bull market, and a global population stuck in front of their screens. Instead of the Umami Era disintegrating into pure, gritty dystopia, we saw incredible returns on incredibly random things. Taking seemingly ridiculous risks became a smart thing to do. We call this era Clown Town.
My tentative theory here is that a well-run crowdsourced project has less need of AI assistance than an individual, because it is already "superintelligent" through the human network interactions, with fewer gaps in knowledge and expertise that need to be plugged by AI.
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