The Hyperstitions of Moloch Hyperstition turns stories into startups at meme speed; Moloch threatens to turn the same process into a tragedy of degraded attention, runaway costs and eroded trust. Ferriss’s endorsement of The Hyperstitions of Moloch signals that the original 4-Hour Workweek principles—validate fast, automate everything, liberate your time—remain potent in 2025, but only if paired with governance that keeps shared resources, from GPUs to human focus, out of the sacrificial fires of Moloch. The frontier is open; whether it becomes a playground or a wasteland depends on which loops we accelerate and which ones we learn to slow. ChatGPT deep dive