Iconica: The Orogeny of the AI Era

Let's envision a romantic and geometric concept of AI and creative network structures. Early internet Leviathanists believed that connecting everything would bridge all gaps. Our world's experience shows that connections themselves are uneven. This limited randomness creates fractal patterns, drawing most people into the information age with no retreat.

Back then, people were vertices, and social networks were tangled webs. The network of creativity and meaning was connected by strokes.

In this era of large models, creators, or style creators, are creative vertices, with AI connecting them and forming volumes. Like using a pen tool, once anchor points are set, areas, volumes, and even higher-dimensional cells are filled. The network of creativity and meaning is now connected by fill.

Because of the volume, the value of vertices is further amplified. Every creator will want their work to be trained and become a stylistic vertex.

Then, as AI fills various vertices, it quietly establishes a dimensional space of meaning it understands. This establishment means that in these areas, AI gradually learns to create vertices, mastering the ability to "ask questions."

More people and AI can then collaborate to discover "hidden dimensions" or "curled dimensions." In the economic field, this could be the discovery and establishment of new circulation factors and consensus; in the realm of thought, the discovery of new paradigms; and in technology, perhaps gradually mastering the Trisolaran ability to unfold protons in two dimensions.

How are new dimensions discovered? First, we often feel them – confusion, emptiness, loneliness – leading us to ponder them alone and interpret them through creation. Enough interpretation creates vertices, sometimes within human cognition's "inner space," and other times with projections in the existing world but residing in an invisible one. As vertices multiply, the efficiency of filling volumes surpasses that of strokes.

This will be the 21st century's orogeny.

With luck, we may witness a new age of "transcendental breakthroughs" akin to the "Axial Age" in this timeline's universe. I believe only the term "Iconica" captures the romance of this era.

On these dunes filled with primal energy, we are not alone.