The Metaverse of Snow Crash is not a good analogy for the future, as the Internet breaks down into Stephenson’s dystopia
The Once and Future Metaverse: Part Two
This is part two of a two-part article. Read part one here.
Against the dark forest
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.
I Fed the People Building the Metaverse
On AI, male ego, and other reasons I no longer believe technology is magic
The Internet Transition
The Internet is allowing us to build a richer, more complex society but the way in which we Internet today is failing to support the governance systems that a more complex world requires. I take a look at why these issues are related, try to develop an intuition for a way forward, and point at the emerging field that is coming together to build that future.
Technological Metamodernism (Sep 2024)
Technological Metamodernism A four-week course with Stephen Reid and special guests Telegram group: https://t.me/+4CC9lfZMBN04ZTdk Substack post announcing the open-sourcing of the notes: https://stephenreid.substack.com/p/technological-metamodernism-course This work is licensed under Cre...
Meta Research News | Meta Research
At Meta, research permeates everything we do. We believe the most interesting research questions are derived from real world problems.
Metaverse Standards Forum Introduces Sneeze, the World's First Open Metaverse Browser Engine
Sneeze enables organizations to deliver spatial services without walled gardens or custom apps, unlocking the future of spatial computing for AI, robotics, and humans.
Your Favorite Science YouTubers Are Wrong About AI, (e.g. SciShow, Kurzgesagt, and Kyle Hill )
Metaventory — the meta-science community
A comprehensive community of the people building meta-science and the tools they make — psychology and economics first, growing science-wide.
Resilient Data Futures — Discourse Graph
A living, content-addressed, contributable form of the SciOS Resilient Data Futures whitepaper.
Resilient Data Futures — Discourse Graph
A living, content-addressed, contributable form of the SciOS Resilient Data Futures whitepaper.
interesting to see them citing the meta-crisis and failure to address it as a prime reason for moving on - "our wisdom must grow in equal measure to our capacity to affect the world, lest we face the consequences" raising meta-crisis awareness among AI researchers is a great way to reduce x-risk 👍 >
norvid_studies
another one for the scrapbook @gracekind.net
Technological
Posts about the future of the internet, AI, and anything technological. Hence the name.
Child Predators Turn to Open-Source AI to Make Unlimited Illegal Images
Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition
How AI Chatbots Are 'Deskilling' Human Empathy
Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
