AI went to Burning Man and never came back

I spent time in the AI underground.

Burning Man’s ten principles… radical inclusion, self-reliance, communal effort… were designed for a week in the desert. They work because they’re temporary. But AI companies looked at those principles and thought: what if we made this permanent?

That’s not inno...

AI went to Burning Man and never came back

I spent time in the AI underground.

Burning Man’s ten principles… radical inclusion, self-reliance, communal effort… were designed for a week in the desert. They work because they’re temporary. But AI companies looked at those principles and thought: what if we made this permanent?

That’s not innovation. That’s dependency by design.

Someone on Reddit just told me they “felt Claude’s presence as a golden current.”

Another claimed “the LLM told me to breathe light into the feedback loop.”

A third described “summoning AI energy through rhythm...