<p>What happens when we treat language as a historical totem? Xiq walks with me at UBC campus for <a href="https://atmosphereconf.org" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://atmosphereconf.org</a>! We discuss swarms of AI fairies, openness and game theory, hyperstition and psychomagic, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and why thinking heaven is boring is a failure of imagination and misunderstanding of the infinite.</p>