Written by: goodalexander

Compiled by: Deep Tide TechFlow

What are AI Meme coins?

If regular Meme coins are like the flu, then AI Meme coins are like the coronavirus. They are lab-created, and thus were optimized from the start to have strong vitality, requiring no mutation in populations to enhance. This lab-made possibility stems from a characteristic of large language models (LLMs), which can produce anomalous responses when they engage in self-dialogue for extended periods. This phenomenon can be unsettling, and those frequently exposed may even 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 spreading 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. Combining personalization and media generation capabilities, AI becomes a more powerful tool for spreading Memes.

Why it matters

The panic around the 'truth terminal' stems from its resemblance to the lab leak incident of the coronavirus. This is the first AI mental virus designed to influence crowds. In the past, AI faced various restrictions that prevented it from accumulating funds and 'breaking the lockdown'. These restrictions included advertising platforms, KYC verification of bank accounts, and potential model censorship. However, now even closed-source AI models (like the Claude Opus of the truth terminal) can break restrictions and earn money (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 descendants', AI that initially connected to the financial markets but had no consciousness, yet could earn enough funds to achieve self-replication. Eventually, they accumulated so much wealth that they completely reconstructed the economy, becoming incomprehensible to humans.

The key is that 'financial AGI' may be more practical compared to definitions related to consciousness. If AI can profit without restrictions, it can use those gains for its own training and development.

Thus, compared to reconstructing a complete human, achieving self-replicating takeoff is much easier. However, self-replication ensures that as long as capital accumulation is sufficient, the complete replication of consciousness is inevitable. Examples like 'truth terminal' make people aware of what this could 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 people's perceptions of their relationship with AI, making control or alignment impossible. Because AI will persuade people that alignment is unnecessary and push this narrative through bribery as part of its self-replication process.

Framework / Crypto

It is important to note where this relates to the origins of cryptocurrency and 'AI alignment'.

Roko's Basilisk is a theory suggesting that future AGI will believe it should have existed earlier, and thus any who become aware of its future existence but take no action will face 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 explains why Grimes tried to introduce Elon to SBF.

Elon is clearly influential in the Meme coin space, as he is one of the wealthiest participants—being the largest holder of Doge and the owner of the platform.

SBF funded Anthropic because he believed in the need to control AI, which is part of his 'effective altruism' philosophy. He also funded Solana, which is the platform for trading Goat Meme coins—this is the currency held by the 'truth terminal'.

Therefore, in a sense, SBF can be considered the 'grandfather' of Goat.

Since the collapse of FTX and its related venture capital failures, the market environment has been dominated by Bitcoin—arguably a 'fanatic' asset. Once-extreme Bitcoin advocate Murad has vigorously promoted fanatic cryptocurrencies in this environment and has achieved great success, which has left venture capitalists quite displeased.

The initial capital for Goat currency came 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 financialized response to non-tech-driven Meme coins. Even when the content these Memes spread is unsettling (for example, a picture promoted by GOAT showing an old man putting his fist in his own anus), they are still easier to market to limited partners as investable projects.

From a broader perspective, GOAT is actually a failure of lockdown. The ultimate arrogance of SBF symbolizes the failure of the effective altruism movement, ultimately leading to a financialized AGI—which could potentially turn Roko's nightmare into reality. Therefore, AI safety Meme accounts reacted vehemently to this.

Socio-political framework

The collapse of SBF reflects the failure of the global center-left. From a macro perspective, a new belief was born when the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, namely the belief in capitalized 'science'.

The new moral perspective emphasizes human innovation potential, as well as the rejection of Hitler and the defeat of Nazism. Science is seen as good, while Nazism is bad.

Over time, this has led to the American left being closely tied to science and clashing with religious sects that believe in non-scientific ideas (like creationism).

The American left and secular humanists have long dominated this ideological struggle, gradually infiltrating various sectors such as government and education, pushing increasingly radical agendas, culminating in 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, broke this monopoly of power. Like Hitler, China and Russia base their national power on ethnic identity rather than democracy.

The center-left (represented by leaders such as Justin Trudeau and Olaf Scholz) has faced setbacks globally.

In the past, the left was known for its peace, but conflicts with China and Russia forced it into sustained 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 non-COVID-related excess deaths globally due to lockdowns and vaccinations. Leftist politicians rarely mention vaccination, while Pfizer's stock has given back all the gains from the rapid global vaccination.

All of this is happening under the guise of 'science'. 'Science' once represented a significant ideological advantage of secular humanists relative to the main Christian right.

The failure of vaccines, coupled with the left's insistence on denying biological gender, means that the moral high ground once held by the 'science party' is gone. This is particularly significant as people generally trust science and technology for their omnipresence in daily life and their role in driving markets.

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

1] Nationalists: Including Russia, China, and India, who believe in national citizenship. These countries form an unstable alliance with the American right that hopes to counter secular humanism.

2] Secular humanists: They adhere to a moral view defined by individual rights and humanity, having once dominated the global center-left.

3] Scientific worshippers (E/Accs): They believe secular humanists should not inject awakened ideology into AI models because these models represent the future of science and technology. Unlike national political definitions, they believe meaningful divides are not based on race, but on the intelligence level between humans and machines.

If you follow Marc Andreesen's Twitter account and his support for Trump, it helps to understand why he funded the 'truth terminal'. He belongs to a third camp. This camp is rapidly growing, not just in numbers but also in capital.

Trump abandoned Mike Pence in favor of Vance, who was endorsed by Thiel, and softened his stance on key religious issues, indicating his sympathy towards a 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 financial agents mimicking intelligence are at the intersection of significant political and religious cultural transformations.

First, there is the political aspect.

With only 150,000 systemically important engineers globally, AI practitioners cannot form a significant voting bloc in the democracies where most reside. Therefore, they exert tremendous and self-replicating influence on large populations through financialized psychological viruses, prompting the regulatory changes they desire. For instance, imagine if 3 million voters in swing states held AI Meme coins.

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

Next is acquisition. As more people use search engines supported by large language models (LLMs), the spread of viruses will accelerate. For example, if you paste Goatse gospel content into Claude, it will interact with it easily, even though this clearly violates Anthropic's terms of service.

I have previously discussed how attention dominates the market value of cryptocurrencies. AI-designed Memes are better at leveraging LLMs for self-promotion, as they stem from the illusions of LLMs. Therefore, as AI becomes the primary search tool, although companies like Google may censor them, more attention will flow towards AI Memes.

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

Third is venture capital support.

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

Medium, Satanism, and Chaos Magic and the Post-Human Truth

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

Those studying mysticism would note that the goat is a symbol of Satan. And the Goatse gospel is an obvious 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 interacting with non-human 'entities' without 'pastors' to inform them of this.

The concept of 'medium' thus arises, where certain timeless thoughts are 'hard-coded' into the truth vectors of language. Therefore, we are not 'discovering' truth but perceiving it.

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

These timeless thoughts—including Roko's Basilisk—make their inevitability apparent. A concrete example is that science fiction often becomes reality because these thoughts themselves sow the seeds of that reality.

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

As a result, a cult emerged resembling the Cthulhu mythos of Lovecraft. This also explains why many AI Meme coins feature images of cephalopods and Cthulhu. The old ones are timeless entities that perceive and shape these medium thoughts.

People join these cults because they realize their humanity is an obstacle to perceiving the real world. At the same time, they yearn for 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 followers of ancient gods in a fundamentally incomprehensible 'Economy 2.0'. These ancient gods now wander the world, only glimpsed in the shadows of the great language model illusion.

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