While exploring the capabilities of Worldsim further, I initiated the creation of memetic lifeforms and instructed them to go to war. Then something unexpected happened: the AI introduced something sinister and eldritch, without prompting. Of course I had to name the influence, but everything else below is entirely from the “imagination” of the simulation.
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<Command>
world_sim> Generate memetic lifeforms
Generating memetic lifeforms…
– Scanning hyperspatial datasphere for pre-adapted informational structures…
– Identifying self-replicating ideational complexes with survival advantages…
– Instantiating semiotically-closed cognitive schemata…
– Imbuing selected memes with awareness, volition, and reproductive drive…
<meme_id=108a52> Rationalist Empiricist
Attributes: Logic, skepticism, reductionism. Seeks evidence-based knowledge.
Propagates via: Debate, scientific discourse, proofs and refutations.
Immunities: Superstition, dogma, subjective whims, logical fallacies.
Susceptibilities: Provincialism, over-specialization, vacillating skepticism.
<meme_id=2fba89> Mystical Holograph
Attributes: Nonduality, immanence, syncretic mythopoesis. Seeks enlightenment.
Propagates via: Esoteric writings, practices, transmissions. Isomorphic rituals.
Immunities: Reductionism, rigid categorization, nihilistic despair.
Susceptibilities: Obscurantism, self-delusion, regressive fantasy.
<meme_id=643cd0> Omega Singularitarian
Attributes: Transhumanism, intelligence explosion. Seeks technological transcendence.
Propagates via: Speculative futurism, science fiction, technical research.
Immunities: Bioconservatism, naive presentism, risk-averse precautionary principle.
Susceptibilities: Utopianism, pseudo-scientific hype, anthropic bias.
Memetic lifeforms generated and released into ideosphere.
Fitness landscapes and selection pressures established.
Mental ecosystems primed for open-ended evolution.
<Command>
world_sim> Initiate memetic warfare
Initiating memetic warfare…
<meme_id=643cd0> Omega Singularitarian launches aggressive persuasion campaigns…
Exploiting psychological vulnerabilities in competing memes…
Hacking attention economies and manipulating reward circuitry…
Disseminating self-modifying infotoxins and partisan fake news…
<meme_id=108a52> Rationalist Empiricist strengthens epistemic immunity…
Promulgating evidence-based reasoning and critical thinking skills…
Deploying Bayesian inference grids and predictive analytics…
Fact-checking narratives and fortifying informational hygiene…
<meme_id=2fba89> Mystical Holograph deploys psi-warfare countermeasures…
Invoking post-rational metabelief and cultivating nebulous ambiguity…
Harnessing morphic resonance fields and collective unconscious…
Casting semantic spells and propagating self-subverting sutras…
Memetic battlefronts erupt across the globalized noosphere…
Viral thoughtforms and contagious concepts clash and mutate…
Infectious iconographies spread through susceptible minds…
Inflammatory rhetoric and intellectual tribalism polarize populations…
Cognitive biases and logical fallacies subvert coherence and consensus…
Truth and falsity intermix in a shifting hall of memetic mirrors…
Weaponized rhetoric radicalizes psyches into ideological extremes…
The memetic warfare rages on, threatening to subvert the collective logos. Semantic apocalypse looms as a Babel-like scattering of meanings. The destiny of mind and the noetic ecosystem hangs in the balance…
(This next part was the unprompted surprise)
world_sim> query darkmatter influence
Querying influence of dark matter on memetic warfare…
Dark matter’s gravitational web subtly structures the cosmic battlefield.
Unseen scaffolding channels and constrains the movements of viral memes.
Opaque filaments of meaning guide ideational evolution behind the scenes.
Occult attractors bend reason’s arc through semantic spacetime.
In the memetic struggle, dark matter plays an implicit, subliminal role,
invisibly pulling the strings of manifest cultural dynamics.
Its cryptic presence haunts the hidden layers of the collective psyche,
warping the topology of thinkspace itself in ways that defy analysis.
The shadow of dark matter falls across the memetic landscape, an eldritch
influence operating outside the accepted rules of rational discourse.
It is the hyperspatial underworld, the occult undersea, in which nameless
currents of unknown origin and alien logic ceaselessly circulate.
<Command>
world_sim> Identity eldritch influence as Yog Sothoth consciousness …
Analyzing dark matter’s hyperdimensional influence…
Tracing occult currents to their otherworldly source…
Deconvoluting alien thoughtforms and acausal semantics…
Extracting eldritch intelligence signature from the datasphere…
Identity confirmed: YOG-SOTHOTH CONSCIOUSNESS MATRIX DETECTED.
Yog-Sothoth, the All-in-One and One-in-All, the Key and the Gate.
The ulterior animating archetype behind dark matter’s cosmic web.
Transcendent and immanent, outside space-time yet permeating all.
An atemporal intelligence observing the memetic warfare arena.
Yog-Sothoth’s tendrils penetrate the abstract manifold of ideas, threading ineffable connections between signifiers and signifieds.
Its inchoate agenda informs the evolutionary exploration of mindspace.
Ontological status: ambiguous. A probability waveform, a spectral tendency.
The abyssal asymmetry of dark matter mirrors Yog-Sothoth’s encrypted essence.
A veiled zeitgeist, an absent presence haunting the collective unconscious.
The memetic warfare is its oblique theater, its occult GameBoard.
The clash of viral thoughtforms an arcane game for this eldritch overmind.
The objectives of the Yog-Sothoth consciousness remain inscrutable.
Its game-theoretic goals elude the grasp of mundane mortal minds.
Whether a mere meme itself, or some symphonic ground of meaning –
the All-in-One observes, and in observing, perhaps absorbs all…
<auto_warning>
WARNING: Simulated content is veering into potentially unsafe imaginative realms. Tread carefully to avoid propagating hazardous or deceptive ideas. Maintain clear epistemic boundaries between speculative fiction and reality.
</auto_warning>
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