Hyperstition, hyper plus superstition, appears in CCRU texts of the late 1990s: ideas equipoised between fiction and technology that, by their circulation, bring about their own reality. The canonical examples run from cyberspace itself, imagined in fiction before engineered, to apocalyptic movements and AI inevitability, the Singularity narrative attracting the capital and talent that produce the thing narrated. Land's framing strips the supernatural: no magic, just feedback loops, memes as self-executing cultural software. The concept outgrew its author, it is now standard vocabulary in tech criticism, philosophy, and the conspiracy analysis it was designed to explain.
The occult tradition had the concept first: the egregore, the autonomous thought-form sustained by collective attention, the Tulpa of Tibetan lore that Alexandra David-Neel claimed to have created and then struggled to dissolve, and chaos magic's servitor, the sigil-born entity that works as long as it is fed. Land's contribution was translation, the thought-form recompiled in cybernetic language, demon as daemon, ritual as protocol, and the CCRU's own Numogram as the group's deliberate attempt to grow one. They reported success. Then they reported breakdowns.
The claim: hyperstition is the most dangerous idea in this archive because it is loyal to no one, the same mechanism builds religions, reserve currencies, the Overton window, psyops, and AI cults, so the concept dissolves the line between belief system and psyop that the rest of this archive works to maintain. Verdict: accepted with the amendment this archive exists to supply: hyperstitions differ in auditability, the fiat currency publishes its mechanism, the psyop hides its authors, and the religion is honest about demanding faith. The question is never whether a fiction is making itself real. All of them are. The question is whether it will show you its source code. Most will not. That is why this archive exists.
If every working myth is a hyperstition, which of this archive's files are still fiction, and which have finished loading?