The King's Double - When the Statue Learned to Speak
Published: April 15, 2026
Duration: 1:50:45
Meta is secretly building a photorealistic AI avatar of Mark Zuckerberg, trained on his image and voice, overseen by him personally, so it can hold conversations with employees, deliver feedback, and watch. His employees have called him the Eye of Sauron for years. Now the nickname is becoming architecture.
In this episode we trace the deep history of this technology: the Egyptian ka, the vital double that inhabited temple images and extended the pharaoh's administrative gaze across an empire. The Tibetan tulpa and its social variant, the egregore, the thought-form sustained and charged by collective attention. The universal...
In this episode we trace the deep history of this technology: the Egyptian ka, the vital double that inhabited temple images and extended the pharaoh's administrative gaze across an empire. The Tibetan tulpa and its social variant, the egregore, the thought-form sustained and charged by collective attention. The universal...