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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I still respect the definition he gives for magic, which he probably pulled forward from one of the many past ritual magicians he's studied. Magic is the change in consciousness in accordance with will... but we must always remember that that doesn't say whose consciousness, nor whose will.
"Any Sufficiently Transparent Magic…" by Damien P. Williams talks about chatbots as sorcery https://pages.charlotte.edu/damien-p-williams/wp-content/uploads/sites/1342/2024/01/DPW_Any-Sufficiently-Transparent-Magic_Edits-PrePrint.pdf