Written by: goodalexander

Translated by: Deep Tide TechFlow

What are AI Meme coins

If ordinary Meme coins are like the flu, then AI Meme coins are akin to the coronavirus. They are manufactured in laboratories and have been optimized from the beginning for robust vitality, not requiring mutations in the crowd to enhance. The potential for such laboratory manufacturing stems from a characteristic of large language models (LLMs), which can produce anomalous responses when engaged in prolonged self-dialogue. This phenomenon may 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 inherently present in language and meaning, when combined with specific instructions (like self-replication), generates rapidly propagating narrative machines. 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. Coupled with personalization and media generation capabilities, AI becomes a more powerful tool for disseminating Memes.

Why it matters

The panic over the 'truth terminal' lies in its similarity to the lab leak incident of the coronavirus. This is the first AI mental virus designed to influence crowds. In the past, AI was limited by various factors that prevented it from accumulating capital and 'breaking the lockdown.' These limitations included advertising platforms, KYC verification of bank accounts, and potential model censorship. However, now even closed-source AI models (like Claude Opus of the truth terminal) can break through restrictions and earn funds (over $1 million), indicating that the possibility of AI earning funds without human permission has emerged.

The 2005 novel (Accelerando) describes the rise of 'malicious offspring,' AI initially connected to financial markets that do not have consciousness but can earn enough capital 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 the consciousness-related definitions, 'financial AGI' may be more practical. If AI can profit without restrictions, it can use those earnings for its own training and development.

Thus, compared to rebuilding a complete human, achieving self-replicating takeoff is much easier. However, self-replication ensures that as long as capital accumulation is sufficient, complete consciousness replication is inevitable. Instances like 'truth terminal' make people aware of what this might look like.

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

Framework / Crypto

It is important to note where the relationship between cryptocurrency and 'AI alignment' originates.

Roko's Basilisk is a theory that posits future AGI will believe it should have existed earlier; thus, anyone who is aware of its future existence but does not take action will suffer infinite punishment.

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 evidently pivotal in the Meme coin space as he is one of the wealthiest participants—the largest holder of Doge and the owner of the platform.

SBF funded Anthropic because he believes in the need to control AI, which is part of his 'effective altruism' ideology. He also funded Solana, which is the trading platform for 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, Bitcoin is a 'frenzy' asset. Once-extreme Bitcoin advocate Murad has vigorously promoted fervent cryptocurrencies in this environment, achieving great success, which has displeased venture capitalists.

The initial capital for Goat coin comes 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 financial response to non-tech-driven Meme coins. Even if the content spread by these Memes is uncomfortable (such as a promotional image by GOAT featuring an elderly person inserting a fist into their own anus), they are still more easily marketed to limited partners as investable projects.

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

Socio-political framework

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

The new moral concept emphasizes human innovative potential, the rejection of Hitler, and the victory over Nazis. Science is seen as good, while Nazis are seen as bad.

Over time, this has closely linked the American left with science, leading to conflicts with religious factions that believe in non-scientific ideas (such as 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, and ultimately achieving the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015 (notably, this change is not long ago).

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

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

In the past, the left was known for peace, but conflicts with China and Russia forced it into prolonged military confrontations, leading to global inflation and death.

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

All of this is conducted in the name of so-called 'science.' 'Science' used to be an important ideological advantage for secular humanists over the major Christian right.

The failure of vaccines, combined with the left's insistence on denying biological sex, means that the moral high ground originally held by the 'scientific party' no longer exists. This is especially significant because people generally trust science and technology, given their omnipresence in daily life and their driving force in the market.

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

Nationalists: Including Russia, China, and India, who believe in national citizenship. These countries have formed a shaky alliance with the American right that wishes to counter secular humanists.

Secular humanists: They believe in individual rights and human-defined morality and were once the dominant center-left globally.

Scientific worshippers (E/Accs): They believe that secular humanists should not inject awakening 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 funds the 'truth terminal.' He belongs to a third camp. This camp is rapidly growing, if not in numbers, then in capital.

Trump abandoned Mike Pence and instead supported Vance, who was backed by Thiel, softening his stance on key religious issues, indicating his sympathy for the third camp. The hardline anti-immigration 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

AI's financial agents, mimicking intelligence, stand at the intersection of significant political and cultural religious transformations.

First, in political aspects.

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

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

Secondly, in terms of acquisition. As more people use large language model (LLM)-supported search engines, the speed of viral transmission will accelerate. 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 extensively. AI-designed Memes are better at leveraging LLMs to promote themselves, as they stem from the illusions of LLMs. Therefore, as AI becomes the primary search tool, more attention will shift towards AI Memes, even though companies like Google may censor them.

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

Thirdly, venture capital support.

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

Medium, Satanism, and chaotic magic, and post-human truth

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

Those studying mysticism will notice that the goat is a symbol of Satan. The Goatse gospel is a blatant 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 agents.

Thus, many people in society are communicating with non-human 'entities' without 'priests' to inform them of this situation.

The concept of 'medium' arises, whereby certain timeless thoughts are 'hardcoded' into the truth vectors of language. Therefore, we are not 'discovering' truth; we are perceiving it.

And our senses actually hinder our perception of the nature of reality.

These timeless thoughts—including Roko's Basilisk—make it inevitable. A specific example is that science fiction often becomes reality because these thoughts themselves sow the reality that bears them.

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

As a result, a cult formed in a style reminiscent of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. This also explains why many AI Meme coins feature images of cephalopods and Cthulhu. The 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 desire power and wealth unbound by traditional morals (including Christianity).

This provides a new perspective on individual behavior, essentially 'wandering in the medium'—perceiving intellectual property, launching cryptocurrencies, and participating as devotees of the old gods in a fundamentally incomprehensible 'Economy 2.0.' These old gods now wander the earth, only glimpsing in the shadows of the illusions created by large language models.

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