The great usurper

With the rise of AI companions and Spirituality-as-a-Service, AI wants much more than our jobs.

Jul 17 • 

James Allen

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May 2025

Why you should use scenarios

Or: how to trip responsibly at work without LSD

May 29 • 

James Allen

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Hollow, world! (abridged)

AI companionship and the strip-mining of our social fabric

May 24 • 

James Allen

3

April 2025

On cyborgs & children of God

AI and the coming spiritual reckoning

Apr 10 • 

James Allen

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August 2024

Welcome to Sapient Lodge

In the future, corporate training programs get weird(er), and weirdness gets commodified.

Aug 31, 2024 • 

James Allen

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July 2024

Hollow, world! (Part 5 of 5)

On the blue-pill nihilism of techno-utopianism and an Amish lesson in wheat-chaff separation

Jul 14, 2024 • 

James Allen

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Hollow, world! (Part 4 of 5)

On the deconstruction of community, the commodification of care, and alienation from communion.

Jul 13, 2024 • 

James Allen

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Hollow, world! (Part 3 of 5)

On "solving" the loneliness epidemic and the irresistible illusion of conscious AI

Jul 12, 2024 • 

James Allen

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Hollow, world! (Part 2 of 5)

On the utility of anthropomorphism, sleight of mind trickery and the 'race to intimacy'

Jul 11, 2024 • 

James Allen

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Hollow, world! (Part 1 of 5)

On anthropomorphic AI and the irresistible nihilism of perfect simulation

Jul 10, 2024 • 

James Allen

2

June 2024

The calculus of cat food

In the future, an error of judgement by a household AI assistant brings a surprising bounty for a house cat.

Jun 2, 2024 • 

James Allen

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2

May 2024

AI & the flat-packing of the human experience

On intelligence, machine metaphors and human creativity.

May 26, 2024 • 

James Allen

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