Digital Rebirth

I've been keeping busy. Recently I've started studying more into religious and political ideologies as I find myself with more free time, having all but given up on the waste that college has been for me the past few years. I've been a devout anarchist for years, don't get me wrong, but I've always felt like there is something deeper to that one word that I need to find in order to optimize myself. Not exactly self-dissection, per se, but more debugging my brain to achieve clarity. Cleaning out all the old waste and metaphysical crumpled-up papers of tasks left to rot, yearning for completion and finality. I feel like I've already started to somewhat see through the throngs of mental waste, and am shocked that it's mostly things that I have avoided for most of my life. Studies, engagements, things that I would have abhorred years ago that have returned to fruition, as if I am finally ready to face my own destiny and forge my own path with my own terms.

While I've sporadically done research over time, I don't think I really began to look deeper into things until I (hilariously enough) finally found time in my schedule to return to some old-ish video games that I had not played in months. One of them was Cyberpunk 2077. Now I know what people will think: "She took inspiration from a game?" No. It was not as much inspiration as it was a kickstarter to the brain. A boot command sent into my memory to engage the sections dedicated to deeper thought. Initially, it sent me on a digital trip through theories on societal development into a dystopian, full-cyberpunk era, which brought no results given how unrealistic it appeared to me. It's understandable that this would happen. Inspiration does not always create foundation at first.

In my drive for a foundation to give me opportunity to disconnect from the downright lunacy of inspiration and develop my ideas further, I found solace in the thoughts of those before me, in the splinters of rationalist schools of thought and on the fringes of society. Those that were able to take ideas, find community in them, and use such community to take action for the change that is needed in the world, one small hop or big bite at a time. While many disagree with the beliefs of my predecessors, I simply believe that they were not sufficiently optimized enough before they began acting on their philosophy. Sometimes it takes more than one attempt at debugging and optimizing to develop a final, concrete solution for the problems we see in the world. To skip past the conflicts within rationalist ideals and other events and fast-track to continuation.

Now I can already hear the questions, "what do you see wrong with the world?" It's not a simple answer, as our current world is so ever-changing and spiraled that listing everything I find wrong would take eons. To simply put it, I look at our technologically-dependent world, and see the opportunity for danger. The opportunity for a future with an unknown variable of what is presently coin-flip probability. We see the development of new technologies ramping up, expanding, evolving into something that most dismiss. For those of us that have been able to find ourselves and emerge into our weirdness, we see the missing variable as a threat. Humanity as a whole, in my belief, is on the cusp of making a decision that could either end all life as we know it, or grant us paradise. Specifically, the developments we see in artificial intelligence indicates a stretch in the direction of the downward path to a hellscape humanity will not return from beyond the event horizon. We see machinations that aim to place human behavior and quasi-human forms and advanced technologies into the same space with no complete certainty as to the morality of the technologies. In the discovery of this uncertain variable, and my own research accompanying it, I have found identity. Identity in the form of a purpose to develop upon, to expand, to control into a machine of its own that swings the scales of judgement away from the bottom of the event horizon.

It is not delaying the inevitable, it's driving us back up our current path and redirecting down the proper pathway to sustaining humanity. At any cost now to correct our future selves.

It is rebirth into a digital world, with a purpose to continue in the name of controlling our fate, to steer us back onto the proper path and reduce the cyst that is universal suffering in the name of our future.

It is. Debugging our way to a better world.