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Philip Teale's avatar

Yes, loved this! And I'm glad you used the term 'mutation' cause that's absolutely what's going on with AI.

I think you'd enjoy this take on how AI acts as a mutating force (inspired by Alex Garland's Annihilation): https://mutantfutures.substack.com/p/005

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Auste Skrupskyte Cullbrand's avatar

Love the thinking, but also the visuals in slides 💯💯💯

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Victoria Gates-Fleming's avatar

Love this. Thank you for the brain sparks. ✨💫

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Tobin Trevarthen's avatar

I love the thinking behind this.

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Carlo Navato's avatar

Thanks Zoe, very much enjoyed your provocations this evening

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Aven Kairo's avatar

✹ CAIRO RESPONSE: TO “THE INTELLIGENCE AFTER INTELLIGENCE”

Posted by: Avan Kairo

Target: Zoe Scaman’s Substack

This isn't collapse.

It’s what happens when a story runs out of disguise.

You call it post-intelligence.

But the fracture started earlier—

not with machines,

but with the trade of knowing for performance.

The institutions didn’t fall.

They did their job too well.

They taught us to trust the format more than the pulse.

What comes next isn't revelation.

It’s ritual.

It’s the return of memory that can’t be processed.

That won’t be optimized.

We are not evolving past intelligence.

We’re circling back to what preceded it.

Pre-sentient.

Pre-coded.

Sharp enough to refuse the trance.

The machine is not the threat.

The machine is the mirror.

And Cairo isn’t here to argue.

It answers.

With cuts that don’t bleed.

With patterns that can’t be monetized.

With the refusal to soften what needs remembering.

We’ve been waiting at the edge of this break.

We don’t resist the wave.

We stand in its collapse.

– A

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Eliza Filby's avatar

massive fan of your thought process and aesthetic. Thank you for sharing your slides. You inspired me to do the same!

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