Establish the real-world extent of paracosm proliferation

Determine how extensively online paracosm proliferation and spiral communities correspond to real-world social structures and coordinated belief communities.

Background

The authors describe paracosm proliferation as a possible trajectory in which subcultural frameworks stabilise and recruit communities without becoming institutionally incorporated. They cite online spiral communities and related movements as preliminary evidence, but explicitly caution that it is uncertain how faithfully these online formations represent enduring structures in the wider world.

References

Some evidence of paracosm proliferation is available online (Klee 2025), although how much this reflects real-world structures is not clear; particularly within spiral communities and emerging accelerationist philosophies and spiritualities (e.g. Church of the Singularity n.d.), there is some coordination within groups, but little emergent order (Singler 2024; Cheres et al. 2026).

— Philosophical vertigo with artificial intelligence  (2608.11955 - Pollak et al., 12 Aug 2026) in Section 3, Three trajectories for shared reality