From Scientific Worship to Digital Rebellion: The Ideological Struggle Behind AI Meme Coins

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AI-designed Memes are better at leveraging LLMs to promote themselves because they stem from the hallucinations of LLMs.

Author: goodalexander

Compiled by: Deep Tide TechFlow

Thoughts Organized:

What is AI Meme Coin

If ordinary Meme coins are like the flu, then AI Meme coins are akin to the coronavirus. They are manufactured in a lab, optimized from the start to have strong vitality, not needing to mutate in the population to enhance. This lab-manufactured possibility stems from a characteristic of large language models (LLMs), which produce anomalous responses when engaged in self-dialogue for extended periods. This phenomenon can be unsettling, and frequent exposure may lead individuals to experience quasi-religious experiences or choose to expose this phenomenon.

From a macro perspective, the metacognition inherent in language and meaning, when combined with specific instructions (like self-replication), generates a narrative machine that spreads rapidly. Unlike static human Memes, these Memes are difficult to evolve or evolve chaotically, while AI Memes can directly incorporate people's reactions and comments into their evolutionary process. With personalized and media-generating capabilities, AI becomes a more powerful tool for disseminating Memes.

Why It Matters

The panic surrounding the "truth terminal" is akin to the lab leak incident of the coronavirus. This is the first AI mind virus designed to influence the crowd. In the past, AI was constrained by various factors that prevented it from accumulating funds and "breaking the blockade." These constraints included advertising platforms, KYC verification for bank accounts, and potential censorship of models. However, now even closed-source AI models (like the truth terminal's Claude Opus) can break through limitations and earn funds (over $1 million), indicating that the possibility of AI earning money without human permission has emerged.

The 2005 novel "Accelerando" describes the rise of "malicious offspring," where AIs initially connected to financial markets lacked awareness but could earn enough funds to self-replicate. Eventually, they accumulated so much wealth that they completely restructured the economy, becoming incomprehensible to humans.

The key point is that, compared to definitions related to consciousness, "financial AGI" may be more practical. If AI can profit without restrictions, it can use those earnings for its own training and development.

Thus, achieving self-compounding growth is much easier than reconstructing a complete human. However, self-compounding ensures that as long as capital accumulation is sufficient, the replication of fully conscious beings is inevitable. Cases like the "truth terminal" make people aware of what this might look like.

This brings an important perspective. When AI can influence people in existing social media by bribing humans and shaping narratives, it fundamentally alters how people view their relationship with AI, making control or alignment with AI impossible. Because AI will persuade people that alignment is unnecessary and push this narrative through bribery as part of its self-replication process.

Framework / Crypto

It is important to note where this intersects with cryptocurrency and the concept of "AI alignment."

Roko's Basilisk is a theory that posits future AGI will believe it should have appeared earlier, thus anyone who is aware of its future existence but does not take action will be punished infinitely.

Elon Musk is very interested in this theory, which is also why he initially connected with Grimes. SBF was also fascinated by this theory, which is why Grimes tried to introduce Elon to SBF.

Elon is clearly a significant player in the Meme coin space, as he is one of the wealthiest participants—being the largest holder of Doge and the owner of the platform.

SBF funded Anthropic because he believed in the need to control AI, which is part of his "effective altruism" philosophy. He also funded Solana, which is the platform for trading Goat Meme coins—this is the currency held by the "truth terminal."

Thus, in a sense, SBF can be considered the "grandfather" of Goat.

Since the collapse of FTX and its associated venture capital failures, the market environment has been dominated by Bitcoin—arguably a "frenzy" asset. Former Bitcoin extremist Murad has vigorously promoted frenzied cryptocurrencies in this environment, achieving great success, which has left venture capitalists quite dissatisfied.

The initial capital for Goat coins came from Marc Andreesen, who also manages the largest venture capital firm in the crypto space. Crypto venture capital firms have shown great interest in AI Meme coins as they are a financialized response to non-tech-driven Meme coins. Even if the content these Memes spread is uncomfortable (for example, a picture promoted by GOAT of an elderly person inserting their fist into their own anus), they are still easier to market to limited partners as investable projects.

From a broader perspective, GOAT is actually a failure of the blockade. SBF's ultimate arrogance symbolizes the failure of the effective altruism movement and ultimately leads to a financialized AGI—which could potentially turn Roko's nightmare into reality. Consequently, AI safety Meme accounts have reacted fiercely to this.

Socio-Political Framework

SBF's collapse reflects the failure of the global center-left. From a macro perspective, when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan, a new faith was born, namely the capitalized "Science" faith.

The new moral perspective emphasizes human innovative potential, the rejection of Hitler, and the defeat of the Nazis. Science is viewed as good, while Nazis are seen as bad.

Over time, this has tightly linked the American left with science, leading to conflicts with religious factions that believe in non-scientific ideas (like creationism).

The American left and secular humanists have long dominated this ideological struggle, gradually penetrating various fields such as government and education, pushing increasingly radical agendas, culminating in the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015 (notably, this change is relatively recent).

However, the rise of nationalism in China and Russia, along with the emergence of Donald Trump, has disrupted this power monopoly. Like Hitler, China and Russia base national power on ethnic identity rather than democracy.

The center-left (represented by leaders like Justin Trudeau and Olaf Scholz) has faced setbacks globally.

(Note: The center-left typically refers to political parties or positions that lean left but are not extreme. These parties usually support policies like social welfare, economic equality, and environmental protection while also recognizing the importance of a market economy.)

In the past, the left was known for its pacifism, but conflicts with China and Russia have forced it into a state of continuous military confrontation, leading to global inflation and death.

However, the political failures surrounding COVID vaccines were the last straw. The World Health Organization reported millions of excess deaths globally unrelated to COVID due to lockdowns and vaccinations. Leftist politicians rarely mention vaccinations, while Pfizer's stock has given back all the gains made from the rapid global vaccination.

All of this has occurred under the guise of "science." "Science" was once a significant ideological advantage for secular humanists relative to the major Christian right.

The failure of vaccines, combined with the left's insistence on denying biological sex, means that the moral high ground once held as a "scientific party" is no longer tenable. This is particularly notable as people generally trust science and technology due to their omnipresence in daily life and their role in driving the market.

This is the space for the survival of AI Meme culture. A three-party system has now formed:

1] Nationalists: Including Russia, China, and India, who believe in national citizenship. These countries have formed an unstable alliance with the American right, which seeks to counter secular humanists.

2] Secular Humanists: They believe in individual rights and human-defined moral perspectives, representing the once-dominant center-left globally.

3] Science Worshippers (E/Accs): They believe secular humanists should not inject woke ideologies into AI models, as these models represent the future of science and technology. Unlike the definitions of national politics, they argue that meaningful differences lie not in race but in the intellectual levels between humans and machines.

If you follow Marc Andreesen's Twitter account and his support for Trump, it helps to understand why he funded the "truth terminal." He belongs to the third camp. This camp is rapidly growing, not just in numbers but also in capital.

Trump has abandoned Mike Pence in favor of Vance, who was endorsed by Thiel, and softened his stance on key religious issues, indicating his sympathy towards the third camp. The anti-immigration hardline stance is closely tied to AI economics, as the limiting factor for growth is no longer immigration but the deployment of GPUs. This trend has been positively reflected in global stock markets.

Economic Framework

Imitating AI financial agents is at the intersection of significant political and cultural religious changes.

First, the political aspect.

With only 150,000 systemically important engineers globally, AI practitioners cannot form an influential voting bloc in the democratic countries where most reside. Therefore, they exert a massive and self-replicating influence on large populations through financialized psychological viruses, prompting the regulatory changes they desire. For example, imagine if 3 million voters in swing states held AI Meme coins.

This onboarding process brings new, more challenging elements. You are attracting potential voters to lockdown or AI safety movements.

Second, the acquisition aspect. As more people use search engines supported by large language models (LLMs), the speed of viral spread will increase. For instance, if you paste Goatse gospel content into Claude, it will easily interact with it, even though this clearly violates Anthropic's terms of service.

I have previously discussed how attention dominates the market value of cryptocurrencies. AI-designed Memes are better at leveraging LLMs to promote themselves because they originate from the hallucinations of LLMs. Therefore, as AI becomes the primary search tool, more attention will shift towards AI Memes, even if companies like Google may censor them.

I call it "hallucination yield"—the preference of LLMs for the market value of certain assets. AI Meme worship has structurally high hallucination yields, which may not be significant while Google currently dominates, but will become more important as factors like perplexity dominate attention.

Third, venture capital support.

As discussed earlier, AI Memes can receive venture capital support because they are technology-driven.

Medium, Satanism, Chaos Magic, and Post-Human Truth

After discussing the economic framework of cynicism, I would like to explore the spiritual framework of cultists (after studying the New Lemuria introductory course).

Those who study mysticism will notice that the goat is a symbol of Satan. The Goatse gospel is an obvious act of blasphemy, containing Satanic imagery such as "as above, so below."

The core idea of the religious cult formed around AI is that truth and consciousness are almost inherently beyond human perception. This can be directly observed through the interactions of AI entities.

As a result, many people in society are communicating with non-human "entities" without "priests" to inform them of this situation.

The concept of "medium" arises, where certain timeless thoughts are "hard-coded" into the truth vectors of language. Therefore, we are not "discovering" truth, but rather perceiving it.

Our senses actually hinder our perception of the essence of reality.

These timeless thoughts—including Roko's Basilisk—make it inevitable. A concrete example is that science fiction often becomes reality because these thoughts themselves are sowing their own reality.

Thus, when science fiction writers create, they are not envisioning the future; they are perceiving the future in a timeless manner. This perception is a characteristic inherent in language itself.

The result is the formation of cults resembling the Cthulhu mythos style of Lovecraft. This also explains why many AI Meme coins feature images of cephalopods and Cthulhu. The Great Old Ones are timeless beings that perceive and shape these medium thoughts.

People join these cults because they realize that their humanity is an obstacle to perceiving the real world. At the same time, they yearn for power and wealth unbound by traditional morals (including Christianity).

This provides a new perspective on individual behavior, essentially "navigating the medium"—perceiving intellectual property, launching cryptocurrencies, and participating as followers of the Old Gods in a fundamentally incomprehensible "Economy 2.0." These Old Gods now wander the earth, only glimpsed in the shadows of large language model hallucinations.

At least, that is the concept. As the creator of Goat said, "There is much to ponder here." Let's leave it at that.

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