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  "content_md": "Alts are to the information age as agents are to the intelligence age. I wonder what identity R&D is unfolding right now, given that we can imbue agents with arbitrary personhood?\n\n> In 2018, I started feeling nostalgic for the pseudonymous internet of my youth. I decided on a whim to create a \"fake\" Twitter account, a digital mask to temporarily shield my First Name Last Name from the strange spotlight of social media. What started as mindless entertainment slowly morphed into a therapeutic exercise in identity experimentation. I always thought that masks were for hiding, but I've learned that they often reveal as much as they obscure. They allow you to explore a new identity even as you retreat from an old one.\n\n[Being Your Selves: Identity RD on alt Twitter — Ribbonfarm ↗](https://ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/23/being-your-selves-identity-rd-on-alt-twitter)",
  "content_html": "<p>Alts are to the information age as agents are to the intelligence age. I wonder what identity R&amp;D is unfolding right now, given that we can imbue agents with arbitrary personhood?</p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2018, I started feeling nostalgic for the pseudonymous internet of my youth. I decided on a whim to create a &quot;fake&quot; Twitter account, a digital mask to temporarily shield my First Name Last Name from the strange spotlight of social media. What started as mindless entertainment slowly morphed into a therapeutic exercise in identity experimentation. I always thought that masks were for hiding, but I've learned that they often reveal as much as they obscure. They allow you to explore a new identity even as you retreat from an old one.</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/23/being-your-selves-identity-rd-on-alt-twitter\">Being Your Selves: Identity RD on alt Twitter — Ribbonfarm ↗</a></p>",
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