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?

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.

Being Your Selves: Identity RD on alt Twitter — Ribbonfarm ↗