Words are Totems (Xiq)

Hope in Source by Henry Zhu

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...

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