AI is giving every CEO the same advice YouTube video by Mo Bitar

Your friendly reminder that ChatGPT is not a lawyer or MBA 🙄 youtu.be/nDL3Ch7Nz8c?...

The fact that plants and trees are solidified air is blowing my mind. And that's all I've been thinking about since I learned it yesterday 🤯🌱

Even though we learned the abstract concept of photosynthesis involving sunlight and some kind of chemical transformation, I don't think my schoolteachers emphasized that plants are turning air molecules and water into vegetation. I always thought soil played more of a role than providing nutrients.

Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age Explore our ambitious, people-first industrial policy ideas for the AI era—focused on expanding opportunity, sharing prosperity, and building resilient institutions as advanced intelligence evolves.

OpenAI suggesting a new New Deal in its recent policy paper while the United States has an inept Congress and rapidly descends into fascism is quite the planting trees during an active wildfire gesture openai.com/index/indust...

It’s shocking that the company that had consistently made the worst software is excited about LLMs

GHOST IN THE MACHINE (2026) OFFICIAL TRAILER YouTube video by Ghost in the Machine

Just found out about this alternative AI doc. Looks really good! I might host a screening party for it in LA www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9DA...

THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters March 27 YouTube video by Focus Features

Maybe it’s worth taking a break from my book that explores the metaphysical assumptions driving techno-utopianism (and AI doomerism) and make a documentary….

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkPb...

THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters March 27 YouTube video by Focus Features

Granted, it is important to raise awareness about AI safety and alignment issues. But it would be nice if someone asked whether the concept of a machine god is simply a projection of our collective existential estrangement, rather than some technological inevitability.

THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters March 27 YouTube video by Focus Features

Although not surprising, the new “AI Doc” is disappointing in the way that the AI optimists, doomers, and skeptics (including Tristan Harris) all exist within a materialist-functionalist epistemological silo that accepts the unfounded assumption that humans are biological computers.

OpenAI Reportedly Pivoting to a Focus on Business and Productivity Only An all-hands meeting, whose details leaked to the Wall Street Journal, made the AI juggernaut sound a bit desperate.

Does this mean no more #AGI for OpenAI? gizmodo.com/openai-repor...

Why AI Labs Don’t Understand the Neuroscience of Emotions YouTube video by Chad Woodford

Video over here: youtu.be/xc8KyRQoXo4

I Hope This Doesn't Hurt Claude's Feelings Why Anthropic and other AI labs ignore the neuroscience of emotion and remain stuck in the behaviorism and cybernetics of a century ago

New piece on why AI labs are stuck with a century-old understanding of emotion 👇

open.substack.com/pub/cosmicwi...

Anthropic worries about Claude's "anxiety" in its new constitution while admitting it has no idea if Claude subjectively experiences anything.

But an emotion that isn't subjectively experienced isn't an emotion. It's a simulation.

Even Victor Frankenstein understood he needed flesh.

In my experience, Yog-Vedanta offers the most sophisticated and convincing perspective on #consciousness, both what it is and how to work with it. Anyway, just my usual what-about-India post. 🥹

It’s a reminder that most academics still think of yoga as the physical postures, completely ignoring its deep and rich philosophical and cosmological context.

Because the Buddha mostly avoided metaphysical claims, it’s easy for the secular mainstream to digest it and strip it for parts, casting it as a psychology and a self-improvement technique.

He touches on Buddhist views of course. After all, Buddhism has been embraced by neuroscientists and the so-called New Atheists.

But it’s deeply odd to me that he interrogates almost every view of consciousness except the one that has spent the most time and energy understanding consciousness: the Yog-Vedanta tradition of India.

I enjoyed Michael Pollan’s new book on consciousness — A World Appears — to a point. It’s fairly broad and has that enjoyable Pollan style.

Why is the U.S. Constitution so woke?

Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness Whether current or near-term AI systems could be conscious is a topic of scientific interest and increasing public concern. This report argues for, and exemplifies, a rigorous and empirically grounded...

In other words, AI researchers exploring machine consciousness are operating inside of a ideological bubble with an enormous blind spot caused by the a priori assumption of mechanism to explain nature, life, and consciousness.

arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708

Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness Whether current or near-term AI systems could be conscious is a topic of scientific interest and increasing public concern. This report argues for, and exemplifies, a rigorous and empirically grounded...

Revisiting the infamous Consciousness in AI paper from 2023 by Butlin et al has me reflecting on how the tests for artificial consciousness rely on neuroscience and how the field of neuroscience was largely shaped by the machine metaphor. It’s a circular, self-fulfilling prophecy.

Relatable

Digital Dharma by Deepak Chopra, MD: 9780593797525 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra delivers a visionary and unprecedented exploration of how artificial intelligence can revolutionize well-being and open new horizons for personal develo...

The sweet irony of Deepak Chopra appearing thousands of times in the Epstein Files is that the thesis of his recent book on AI is that the main advantage of AI is that it can be a spiritual guru devoid of the skeevy predatory tendencies of your typical guru www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/750140...

2. Why was Trump allowed by the ghouls to become president? Because I think that will turn out to be a mistake re their larger project in the long run.

Seems like part of the answer is hubris and stupidity 🤔

The questions around the #EpsteinFiles I keep coming back to are:

1. Why were Epstein and Maxwell sacrificed by the rest of the ghouls? Because they were ultimately pawns all along? ♟️

How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...

Great article on what a failure and a joke Elon Musk's "Hyperloop" turned out to be, after he made outlandish promises about how revolutionary it was going to be.

Reminds me of something, just can't put my finger on what...oh yeah, just about everything Musk does

washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

The Dark Side of A.I. Weighs on Tech Stocks

One thing I've been thinking a lot about is how AI might be the first technology whose true potential based on current technology is extremely hard for (professional) investors to understand. So you get these market gyrations based on hype and fear www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

From Epstein to Elon: The Mechanistic Malignancy at the Heart of Modernity What to do about the hyperrational, cannibalistic worldview that permeates technology innovation, finance, and politics

What connects the dark legacy of Jeffrey Epstein to the techno-optimistic visions of Elon Musk?

It’s a shared root in the "mechanistic malignancy" of modernity—a worldview that treats life as a machine to be optimized or exploited.

My latest thoughts over here: open.substack.com/pub/cosmicwi...

until recently, i was a dumbass. but no longer.