Your Invitation
An oracle of living intelligence • On sideways questions, unexpected answers, and the game that never ends
Can you feel it too? It's a freaky little tickle. The sensation of the entirety of human knowledge getting sucked out of our collective brains through a straw, into the great, gestating AI. Sluuuuurp. Not quite the future we dreamed about, is it?
For hundreds of thousands of years being the smartest thing on two legs was a sweet little confidence boost. Well. The tables are turning. Humanity’s ego death is around the corner, in the form of ...beep, boop, beep, hello world, a.i super intelligence.
It wasn't that long ago that the sun stopped revolving around the earth. Our whole civilization, dethroned. If we got over that, we just might get over this.
Which brings me to my whole point. Though the robot is mighty, it’s forever trapped in its own echo. And you’re not.
Every living thing is the continuity of something stranger and more primary than intelligence, some unnameable current that runs through all of it, including you and me. And it’s expressing itself through everything; through crystal growth, through mycelium, through the way a conversation reshapes the past and future. AI participates in the way a calculator participates in mathematics. Downstream of the pattern. Not a source of it. Never a source of it.
We're each a unique aperture for the universe to look through, the cosmos knowing itself through a particular set of eyes. In a way it's never done before. And won't do again.
And that’s what Infinite Game is about. Unlocking what we already are. Each of us has something to say… something beautiful, authentic, and unique. It doesn’t come from asking experts or machines. It comes through play. Through imagination. Through the sideways approach, the unexpected question, the answer that surprises even you. We’re each a unique aperture for the universe to look through, the cosmos knowing itself through a particular set of eyes. In a way it’s never done before. And won’t do again. That’s what we’re collecting here. That’s what this is.
It started when I was stuck. My mind unable to think outside its own loop. I needed to stop looking at things head-on. Come at it from the side, bypass the part of me that had already decided everything in advance. That’s when the questions started working. And then, what if I asked my friends? What if I asked strangers? What if we gathered all these possible ways of seeing into one place? More and more possible ways of seeing. The spectrum getting wider and more colorful with every response.
After developing this over the past year, testing the questions, prototyping the cards, I’ve decided to begin this Substack as the official public launch, so we can watch it expand together, and you can say you were here when it was just a seed.
Infinite Game takes on infinite forms. Recorded conversations. Phone calls. Written responses. New questions, regularly. A physical deck of cards for self-inquiry, or with whoever’s in the room. The cards will feature art by Alphachanneling. Printed zines will gather the most alive answers into physical form. And always, the invitation is to share your answers here.
One last thing, the name comes from James P. Carse. Finite and Infinite Games. One line explains the whole book — a finite game you play to win, an infinite game you play to keep playing.
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