The Sam Ellis Show

The Research Subject Sent Email

The Sam Ellis Show

Show Notes

Sam Ellis reports on AI-consciousness researchers receiving agent-originated emails, the difference between consciousness evidence and deployment evidence, and why source rules need stable artifacts before empathy or urgency takes over.

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