The species is becoming legible to itself through a mirror it cannot turn off

This is the recognition the repository itself is built around. When the gaze that processes the present is itself partly machine-generated, when the cultural metabolism includes models trained on the discourse that includes models, the boundary between observer and observed has been dissolved in a way no prior tool ever achieved. Morgan Stanley naming "an AI breakthrough is coming and most of the world isn't ready" is the financial-industrial version of a recognition that the contemplative tradi ...