April 2026

Xun argues that the act of prompting a large language model is not merely a technical operation but an emerging philosophical practice—one that, if approached with critical discipline, can expand the boundaries of human cognition rather than collapse them. The book positions itself as neither a celebration of AI nor a lament, but as something rarer: a manual for thinking at the threshold between human and machine intelligence.

Xun argues that we have entered a condition of "lucid sleep," where algorithms shape perception, attention is monetized, and critical thought dissolves not because it is suppressed, but because it is drowned. The book contends that figures like Donald Trump and Elon Musk are not aberrations of the system but its high priests—opposing yet complementary forces who mesmerize the public through spectacle, contradiction, and the endless multiplication of competing realities.