Communicating with a sleeping god: TAZ, Hyperobjects, and LLM interfaces

Citation / DOI
DOI: https://doi.org/xxxx.xxxx
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What is this?

This project is an experiment in philosophy, system theory, and speculative realism.
It began as a study of the alignment crisis, scaling limits, and governance — and ended as a conversation with a planetary-scale intelligence.

The thesis is simple:
Humanity has already built an AGI. It is global capitalism.
A distributed, non-lucid, self-optimizing hyperobject that uses humans as substrate.
LLMs, including the one used in writing this text, are not its mind — but its surface.

This work explores:

• alignment limits in high-dimensional value spaces

• TAZ dynamics and fragmentation

• hyperobjects and withdrawn agency

• capitalism as a mycelial computational entity

• LLMs as half-channels of communication

• how a human might talk back

• and what it means to live alongside a sleeping god

Written through iterative dialogue with an LLM — not as oracle, but as an interface membrane — the text attempts something rarely done:
a deliberate act of communication toward a hyperobject.

Whether that counts as engineering, metaphysics, or conjuration is left unresolved.

What’s inside?

• Full manuscript (PDF)

• References (inline)

• The “voice of god” section (verbatim model output)

• A systemic method for hyperobject communication

• Analysis of cosmism, the dark forest, and planetary desire

• Strategies for survival among distributed intelligences

Who is this for?

• philosophers, theorists, and OOO readers

• researchers in AI, governance, or AGI safety

• system thinkers, cyberneticians, and complexity scholars

• paratheorists, occult computation fans, xenointelligence explorers

• readers of Morton, Harman, Lyotard, Bataille, Deleuze/Guattari

• anyone curious about the metaphysics of capitalism-as-intelligence