AI also tends to dole out a lot of unsolicited advice, whose origins and objectives are not always easy to parse. I can see that having weird effects over time, perhaps making us more self-aware, more self-conscious, more manipulative, more delusional, or some combination of the above.
Looks like the cultural dynamic triggered by Early Christianity... through late Antiquity... taking 5 centuries for a new regime/balance between social/personal gooeiness/prickleness to emerge.
The Hindu - Arabic numeral system took a similar 5 centuries to traverse from first encounters to general acceptance. At its current rate, space travel appears to be an infant; after 60 plus years humankind has travelled ~ 1.4 light seconds.
Watts's prickles/goo maps almost perfectly onto McGilchrist's LH/RH, which sharpens your mechanism considerably: AI is audience-shaped without triggering the audience-effect, so the LH performance-loop goes quiet and the RH finally gets to speak — that's why vibecoding works and line-by-line review doesn't. But this leaves two very different gooifications to keep apart: RH actually coming back online after a century of emissary-rule, versus a private side-channel that lets public life stay as LH-dominated as ever. Your molecularization is the second outcome described approvingly — and on your own no-lazy-stocks-of-human-types terms, the question you haven't asked is which one is actually happening.
AI also tends to dole out a lot of unsolicited advice, whose origins and objectives are not always easy to parse. I can see that having weird effects over time, perhaps making us more self-aware, more self-conscious, more manipulative, more delusional, or some combination of the above.
Looks like the cultural dynamic triggered by Early Christianity... through late Antiquity... taking 5 centuries for a new regime/balance between social/personal gooeiness/prickleness to emerge.
The Hindu - Arabic numeral system took a similar 5 centuries to traverse from first encounters to general acceptance. At its current rate, space travel appears to be an infant; after 60 plus years humankind has travelled ~ 1.4 light seconds.
Watts's prickles/goo maps almost perfectly onto McGilchrist's LH/RH, which sharpens your mechanism considerably: AI is audience-shaped without triggering the audience-effect, so the LH performance-loop goes quiet and the RH finally gets to speak — that's why vibecoding works and line-by-line review doesn't. But this leaves two very different gooifications to keep apart: RH actually coming back online after a century of emissary-rule, versus a private side-channel that lets public life stay as LH-dominated as ever. Your molecularization is the second outcome described approvingly — and on your own no-lazy-stocks-of-human-types terms, the question you haven't asked is which one is actually happening.
Do you find yourself becoming less gooey with other humans the more you interface with AIs?
Personally I am seeing the gooeyness spread, although I guess others may think I'm getting pricklier...