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Send us Fan Mail It is widely accepted that after every major technological breakthrough in American history, upheaval or economic "bankruptcy" followed. The invention of the automotive assembly line, the tractor, the railroad, highway system, the computer, internet... and now, A.I. - the same cycle repeats - technological discovery, followed by massive investment in infrastructure or production, widespread adoption, then economic exhaustion before the next big thing. In the current environme...
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Send us Fan Mail We follow a futurist thought experiment where AGI makes human labor commercially pointless, ASI manages civilization through flawless resource allocation, and the last remaining maintenance work gets handed to autonomous robots. Then we face the uncomfortable twist: a world of abundance and zero work can still break us if we can’t create meaning without struggle. • AGI defined as an economic threshold where human cognition stops being worth hiring • The labor exo...
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Send us Fan Mail As A.I. personas become more realistic and interactive on ever increasingly personal levels, at what point will our attention and attachment to these new entities in our lives begin to influence the underlying quantum realm where reality and the present moment manifests? They seem so real. Is it possible that with enough emotional energy and focus we could "believe" them into actual human existence? Would the quantum engine allow us to connect with these beings in the "real w...
Send us Fan Mail If perception is reality (dig down into the quantum realm or the matrix to try to explain the physics if you dare), does that imply that anything we hear or see or feel or imagine is "real" - part of our "real" world? Is anything excluded from reality? Sure, Yoda is a fictional character, but isn't he real to everyone? When you reference Yoda everyone knows who that is. Sounds pretty real to me. So, how can someone claim that Yoda doesn't exist when clearly he's affected so m...
Send us Fan Mail Sounds absurd...until you get it. The two hosts you’re hearing are AI-generated, produced with Gemini NotebookLM from our workshop sources. They are not human and not agents of The Foundry. Support the show Sheridan Forge would love to hear your thoughts on this subject. Write him at: [email protected]