Hypersocial_ ⚡🤝

start here

Hypersocial_ is a space for wondering what it really means to build technology in service of humanity.

---

Hi friends,

This is a project I’ve been sitting on for a while. Like a while. I first put the branding together in 2024, which as indicated by the new 2026 in the corner of my laptop, was more than a whole entire year ago. Since then, I’ve been reading… reading, a ton. About AI, consciousness, economics, philosophy, parenting, biology… pretty much everything that has captured my attention at this tumultuous point in our collective (and my personal) life. I’ve been making sense of it all in my physical reality (as a parent and an individual person), in my morning pages, in my work on Web3ForGood, but up until this point, I haven’t pressed “Publish” over here. It hasn’t been perfect, I tell myself.

Will it ever be perfect though? If there’s anything I’ve learned in this last year of deep research, it’s that in this wild and crazy age of rapidly accelerating technology, there will always be something new to think about and digest into new meaning. The time to bring others into the conversation was yesterday. So it’s time to bring Hypersocial_ to life, imperfections and all, and let it evolve as it may ✨.

Hypersocial_ is a space for wondering what it really means to build technology in service of humanity.

This is an open frequency for anyone who believes technology should/could make us more alive, not less. This isn’t just another tech feed; it’s a place to metabolize creative destruction and integrate our human story with the stack.

For those of you who don’t know me: Hi, I’m Sam. For more than a decade, I’ve worked at the intersection of emerging technology, storytelling, and social impact. Along the way, I’ve come to realize that technology moves too fast for traditional institutions to steer it alone. Deeper conversations need to be happening where the building is already taking place, with founders, engineers, designers, investors, researchers, creators, and of course, us the human users experiencing the beautiful and poignant reality of what it means to be alive.

I believe technology can be powerfully life-giving when guided by our deeply held, human values. This space is an attempt to weave what makes us human back into the tech stack, guided by those values.

Each publication, expect a combination of:

• ⚡ Essays & Interviews - Human thinking about values, those that shape who we are and will shape how we build the future. I’ll be talking with builders, educators, writers, healers, parents, visionaries, and more to make sense of how we’re all making sense of the world and sharing my own reflections and ideas along the way.

• 📡 Hypersocial_ Signals - Curated stories and research worth your attention, spanning tech, culture, policy, philosophy, religion, economics, nature, and more. I’ll be sharing the media that resonates with me, as signals to follow in the noise of what’s emerging and as a guide toward what we should be thinking about together.

• 🌀 Wondering Together - One big question to sit with to imagine ways forward.

Hypersocial_ is a community experiment in conscious authorship. How can we steer technology so that it supports the evolution and flourishing of humanity, the living systems we depend on, and the overarching universe? This is an exploration of how to live and build in a time when technology touches our work, families, homes, rituals, sense of what it means to be human, everything.

If you’re a builder, dreamer, or thinker who wants to consciously create a future that feels alive and whole… this space for you.

Welcome ✨

__

What can you expect here, today? As mentioned before, over the last year, I’ve consumed hundreds of pieces of media across a range of subjects that has influenced how I am thinking about what it means/will mean to be human in this new technological era. Today, I’m sharing a curated list of dozens of links that I still can’t stop thinking about, for you to explore.

Consider this first, expansive list of Hypersocial_Signals a taste of what you can expect here. I’m excited to share conversations, ideas, and more as this project ramps up. If any of this resonates with you, please subscribe, share, and let me know what you think.

Onward⚡🤝,
xx Sam

---

📡 Hypersocial_ Signals

Curated stories and research worth your attention, spanning tech, culture, policy, philosophy, religion, economics, nature, and more.

🧘 Humanity, Consciousness, & Reality (spirituality, psychology, meaning-making, values)

• People are starting to believe that AI is conscious

• The Vanishing Art Of Building Sacred Spaces

• The Dharma of Digital Agents: Buddhist Perspectives on AI and Identity

• Full-Stack Alignment

• My mom and Dr. DeepSeek

• AI robot dolls charm their way into nursing the elderly

• Embracing A World Of Many AI Personalities

• Will AI make blockchains conscious?

• Cyborg Minds and the Right to Think Freely

• Will AI Improve Exponentially At Value Judgments?

• Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

• Global Dialogues: Human-AI relationships

• Technology will never be a god – but has it become a religion?

• The Space Of Possible Minds

🌐 Systems & Society (policy, economics, governance, public goods)

• We Failed The Misinformation Fight. Now What?

• The Electric Slide

• Unleashing the AI jobs revolution in Africa

• From automation to agency: Prototype for self-owning intelligent buildings enabled by blockchain

• Why human-AI relationships need socioaffective alignment

• Decentralizing AI

• AI is unmasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it?

• AI launches across the government

• AI Pathways: Two scenarios for AI’s future

• From Laws to Ledgers: Why Protocols—Not Policy—Must Tame Self-Sovereign AI

• The UAE is giving away its advanced AI

• Decolonizing The Machine: From Extractive AI to Abundant Intelligences

• Beyond Public and Private: Collective Provision Under Conditions of Supermodularity

• Indonesian fishermen are using a government AI tool to find their daily catch

• Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell

• The images of Spain’s floods weren’t created by AI. The trouble is, people think they were

• We need network societies, not network states

• The myth of sovereign AI: Countries rely on U.S. and Chinese tech

• When Algorithms Amplify Division: Lessons from Charlie Kirk’s Death

• A Third Path For AI Beyond The US-China Binary

• More people trust chatbots than elected leaders

• AI Acceleration Vs. Precaution

• What does it mean to decentralize AI?

• Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister

🎨 Culture, Creativity, & Media (art, identity, narrative, imagination)

• Reimagining School In The Age Of AI

• The future of media is a bank

• The hottest new phone is Tin Can, a ‘landline’ for kids

• Ask not what AI will do, but what we can make it do

• AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor

• When does an actor stop, and AI begin? What The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez tell us about AI in Hollywood

• AI being able to produce papers that aren’t easily distinguishable from human-authored ones is potentially an extremely positive development.

• What Humans Do Next

• You sound like ChatGPT

• An Artist Corporation

• They’re Stuffed Animals. They’re Also A.I. Chatbots.

• Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem

• We need to start thinking of AI as “normal”

• Our AI ad for David Beckham’s company, IM8, just got 35 million views ONE DAY on IG

• Hear Me Out: the Anti-Smartphone Thing Is a Grift

• Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling.

• How Delta is using AI for ticket pricing and what it means for air travel

• Capital Formation in the Reputation Era

• Gen Z Is Getting Divorced, With the Help of AI

• My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

• AI is reshaping childhood in China

• 72 Hours with Friend AI

• AI’s shift to the intimacy economy

• The internet is dying on the outside but growing on the inside

• GibberLink lets AI agents call each other in robo-language

• Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models

• I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.

🌌 Biology & the Physical Universe (climate, nature, resilience, health, long-termism)

• Even A Grain Of Sand Deserves Justice

• We need to hold on tight to natural wine more than ever

• A Young Man Used AI to Build A Nuclear Fusor and Now I Must Weep

• AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon

• UPenn professor receives $48.3 million to find new treatments in old drugs

• OpenAI and Retro used a custom model to make cellular reprogramming into stem cells ~50× better, faster, and safer

• market map on repro health

• Ecological Institutions → Protocols to Grow Autonomous and Convivial Ecological Actors

• The Crisis That United Humanity—and Why It Matters for AI

• An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms

• How does the world feel about the possibility of understanding other species?

---

---

🌀 Wondering Together

One big question to sit with to imagine ways forward.

Do we have an obligation to share unfinished or imperfect thinking and projects in a time of rapid change?

• (What does the collective lose from us when we conflate “better” with “perfect”?)

• (Could thinking transparently, even imperfectly, be a welcomed signal of authenticity in an age of generated perfection?)

---