Technology

Words are Totems (Xiq)

Mar 28, 202600:53:52Technology

What happens when we treat language as a historical totem? Xiq walks with me at UBC campus for ! We discuss swarms of AI fairies, openness and game theory, hyperstition and psychomagic, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and wh...

About This Episode

Words are Totems (Xiq) is an episode from Hope in Source by Henry Zhu. What happens when we treat language as a historical totem? Xiq walks with me at UBC campus for ! We discuss swarms of AI fairies, openness and game theory, hyperstition...

Podcast

This episode belongs to Hope in Source.

Listen Online

Use the player on this page to stream the episode online.

Episode Details

Published Mar 28, 2026, 00:53:52 long, audio available.

Words are Totems (Xiq)

About This Episode

Related Episodes