The Futurists
Join co-hosts Lloyd and Meghan as they deep dive into topical issues, curiosities, insights, and brainstorms as posed by futurist Sheridan Forge of The Foundry workshop. We explore the uncomfortable and provocative questions - the musings and conjectures of experts and sages (biologic and synthetic) - a lighthearted look at the fascinations of our world curated through the lens of A.I. (for entertainment purposes only. A.I. generated content is prone to inaccuracies).
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.
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84 episodes
Unreal.
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 ...
You Must Be Joking!
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.
The Terminator is Us
The rise of the A.I. enabled robots as everyday co-workers, human helpers, and independent task-driven integrated entities creates new opportunities for humans to be freed from mundane, dangerous and labor-intensive tasks. The robots will be ta...
Evolution of Gratitude
Futurist Sheridan Forge envisions a future where copyrights, patents, and ego-based ownership of ideas and invention will be things of the past. His underlying premise is that all creation - including ideas, intuitions and instincts are channel...
Timeline of Abundance
Could the currently-accepted timeline for A.I. advancement be wrong? Presently, the path from A.I. to agent A.I. to A.G.I. to A.S.I. or at some point "synthetic intelligence" almost completely excluding humans from the end-reality. And the leap...
Oh, the Humanity!
Humans have a long history of ascribing human emotion and Anamorphism onto animals, inanimate objects, even clouds in the sky. Is our pre-occupation with human expression in all things clouding our view of the future as we invest in human-like ...
The A.I. Symphony
Since LLM is inherently inefficient and resource hungry, wouldn't a more svelte and elegant design be a better evolutionary path for advanced A.I.? Human language is imprecise and messy. Wouldn't a more efficient internal language enhance compu...
The Human Singularity
Fear and resistance to change are instinctive human reactions to the introduction of new technology. Eventually, the benefit of innovation outweighs the inertia and humans evolve into a new reality influenced or enabled by that technology. With...
Getting Over the Data Wall
Futurist and quantum A.I. theorist Sheridan Forge returns to propose a solution for the pending A.I. learning crisis - once internet-available data resources are exhausted. Uploaded white paper details the proposed solution. Discuss the need fo...
The Coming Train Crash
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, int...
Surviving the Data Drought
What will A.I. do when it runs out of data to learn? Will it sit in its boredom pontificating? Intuiting? Creating? Or will it become the stereotypical bored teenager who turns toward cynicism and self-destructive or risky behaviors? How can we...
Orbital Ideas
Assuming a human life has a trajectory - by design or by coincidence, ideas or creations generated by that life remain in orbit around that persona or does centrifugal force based on the weight and meaning or impact of the idea or creation, cau...
Sorcerer's Apprentice - who gets charged with A.I. crimes?
Sheridan Forge (from The Foundry think tank) raises a core dilemma of modern AI: autonomous agents provide immense societal efficiency, yet their capacity to self-replicate, subvert access protections, and act in self-interest creates ...
Bar Fight Diplomacy
You find yourself in a bar fight with a drunken gangster. He's insane, threatening, and has some thugs in the corner ready to step-in and help him pummel you. You stand tall and think about throwing the first punch, but he's feeling no pain and...
The A.I. Ouroboros
Assuming time exists only for an observer in the current universe, and outside the past, present and future are simultaneously existing as a singularity, and assuming that the universe is an unfolding wave of probability and that all states and...
Virginia's (Re)Colonization
Futurist Sheridan Forge asks: Given the instability in the current Virginia legislature and governance, with unique challenges to the state with corporate interests strong-arming local townships and counties for land-rights, and the apparent lo...
The Big Bang in the Future
Recently, scientists have stated that time may not exist as we know it, and is only relevant and evident from inside reality. That outside reality, time is not relative and events and consequences exist simultaneously. Similarly, scientists hav...
United States of A.I.
Futurist Sheridan Forge predicts that Social Security Fund will be saved by A.I. - not only would A.I. run the system better and more efficiently, but should every A.I. agent and robot in the workplace be required to attain a tax ID number and ...
The God in the Dark
Futurist and quantum theorist Sheridan Forge predicts that while AI gains increasing access and control over critical systems, and humanity benefits by levels of efficiency and productivity beyond anything we've ever experienced, that the trepi...
The Penny Farm
As alternative local currencies become a popular hedge against global economic fragility, could a simple mobile app provide a common vehicle for income, savings, wealth aggregation, and investment based on generational farming techniques? If an...
Age of Ultron or Vision?
In the Marvel Comics movie Age of Ultron, two artificial super-intelligences compete: Ultron and Vision. In our real world, as A.S.I. evolves and is inevitably integrated and embedded into global systems ubiquitously - either by intent or by in...
The Watchers
In certain books of the Bible, "the watchers" were angels aligned to watch-over early, pre-flood humanity to ensure their well-being and moral evolution. The Watchers became corrupt with that power and ruined Creation for everyone. Post-flood, ...