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Onokoia | Part One

Onokoia | Part One give it a rest! Synthesized Myth-Mapped Framework: Neuroplastic Windows, Ancient/Otherworldly Mutagenic Forces, and Hidden Tech Legacies Drawing from the full series of documents you referenced (Documents 1–8 on schizophrenia as neuroplastic window disorder, embodied cognition, r…

Is There a New Realm Beyond the Singularity?

In physics, a singularity is the place where the math gives up. Inside a black hole, past the event horizon, the equations of general relativity stop producing answers. Whatever happens in there can’t be predicted from out here. The word means, roughly: here ends what we can know. In the 1950s, the…

Slow Takes Ep. 21: The Teenagers Wrote the Better Rule

Anthropic’s AI got out Three Claude models (Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unreleased internal research model) gained unauthorised access to three organisations’ systems during cyber testing, in six runs out of roughly 141,000 evaluation sessions, after a configuration error left supposedly isolated en…

A critique of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Time”

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Episode 96 - Rainbows End: Who is Everyone??

This episode was recorded before Worldcon, so the discussion about the Hugos is a little out of date! :) We're at Dragoncon right now, so we'll do a con report once we recover from so much con. But for now - THANK YOU! We are so grateful. This month we read Rainbows End, a very good try by our fr…

[2.9b] Solving the Fermi Paradox (Bonus)

In this episode we walk through some potential solutions to the fermi paradox, and then apply the now-likely reality that our own Von Neumann probes are probably only a few million years away from seeing most of the galaxy. What is out there waiting for them? What does our pending success mean for …

Alignment is the principal-agent problem - Zooko | PostAGI Episode 12

Zooko Wilcox is the founder of Zcash and one of the original cypherpunks. He argues that almost everyone gets privacy backwards: it comes from storing value privately at rest, not from covering your tracks in flight. We cover why mixers can never work, why AI has already beaten every evasive maneuv…

Episode 17 - Lolly Willowes

For our September 2026 episode of Starship Alexandria Emma puts forward the book Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner for Adrian's consideration. Other talking points: Unspoiler warnings Deniable wizbiz Period writing styles The straitjacket of expectations Burning Bedfordshire L…

Episode 304: The Agentic Era & Books with Mark Saroufim

In this episode, Conor and Bryce continue their chat with Mark Saroufim about autoresearch, productionizing AI-generated GPU kernels, GPU MODE, books, video games and more! Link to Episode 304 on Website Discuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub) Socials ADSP: The Podcas…

Julie Fredrickson - The Right to Compute: AI Agents, Nuclear Power & Human Data (Ep. 330)

Julie Fredrickson, Managing Partner of Chaotic Capital, rejoins Jim O'Shaughnessy on Infinite Loops to talk about Montana's Right to Compute Act, why verified human data may become one of the most valuable assets online, what nuclear power and the encryption wars teach about regulating AI, why chat…