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🚨NEW EPISODE DETECTED - #31! 🚨

Rumors are building that 2027 will usher in the true explosion of synthetic intelligence. We explore the fears that come along with that: will it be Skynet, or something stranger?

What if the AI takeover doesn't start with machines rebelling and Terminators hunting us down? Was T.S. Eliot more correct than he knew? Will the human world end not with a bang, but a whimper?

What if instead of violent annihilation we just give over more and more of our work and our agency until there's nothing left, because the machines make our lives so much easier that we gladly hand them the keys?

On the other hand, we all sense that human beings were never made to sit in cubicles staring at computer screens all day. What if the bots come for our email jobs and in the process, liberate us to rediscover our humanity?

@SteveSkojec and @kalezelden start with the AI labs going quiet, Claude Fable 5.2, a possible GPT-6 drop, and the hard lesson in hardware that's coming for the software bros.

Will GTA6 -- essentially a degeneracy simulator -- be the last human-made AAA game? If so, could there be any more fitting curtain call?

This episode quickly tosses the prep notes in favor of diving into the questions underneath all of this: what is work for, what are humans for, and what have we lost along the way to this weird future we're living in?

What can humans do that is uniquely human?

What can the bots never take from us?

Along the way: white-collar jobs, the breaking social contract, AI agents scanning LIDAR for archaeological sites, and the forecast that 2027 is when the intelligence explosion takes off.

What If AI Takes Our Jobs...But Restores Our Humanity? | MTS #31 youtu.be/3Wdk79lTBEA?si… via @YouTube

We recorded episode 31 on Wednesday: three hours on AI, work, and what makes us human, and in the day and a half since, the AI world hasn't slowed down one bit.

So tomorrow, Friday, 4 to 6 PM Eastern, we're going live for the first time to catch up on what's happened since we stopped recording, hear what you're seeing, and take some of your questions.

It's a first for us, so expect a little setup dust, but we'd love to have you in the chat.

Link: youtube.com/live/OrpWRr6r-…

@kalezelden @mtspodcastonx

🚨 IT'S NEW EPISODE DAY, FELLOW MONITORS!! 🚨

The guys make a hard turn back to the weird and the woo with this week's episode:

A senior Defense Department official hears a classified briefing on an unidentified craft and tells Jay Stratton: "You're poking demons. You should stop."

@steveskojec and @kalezelden dig deeper into Out of the Shadows: Stratton's account of the legacy crash-retrieval program, Lockheed's alleged 12 nonhuman craft, and the reports that get rewritten on their way up the chain.

Then come Skinwalker Ranch, portals in his backyard, a wolf-like creature, and the orb encounter that sent his son to the hospital.

Kale brings Diana Pasulka's critique of Stratton's religious framing; Steve challenges her reading of the Pentagon encounter. What belongs to aerospace engineering, what belongs to religion, and what do we do when the categories overlap?

Also: space as a frontier, the midterms, young men and the Anakin meme, the post-war order, disappearing internships in the age of AI, and the hosts' concerns about Poland.

Available to everyone RIGHT NOW!

He Investigated UAPs. Something Followed Him Home. | MTS #30 youtu.be/VU9UfmFhAAo?si… via @YouTube

🚨EPISODE 29 DETECTED! 🚨

It's Thursday, and that means another new episode of @MTSPodcastOnX is now available for your viewing and listening pleasure!

We've got thrills, chills, and midweek mayhem!

(I'm only half-kidding.)

This week, we continue our thematic search for truth behind the nested masks of lies in our social imaginary; from actresses changing their faces to narrative reconstructions and microexpressions, why is it that we can all look at the people offering the same information and come away with totally different understandings of what it means?

We also dip our toes into the weird, talking about spiritual parasites, historical accounts of levitation and bilocation, preternatural intuition, and the fact that if you pay too much attention to the things that lurk in the shadows of reality, they have a tendency to start paying more attention to you -- which also describes the egregores that power our online algorithms as they feed us more of what they have observed us interacting with.

We finish up with a return look at You Can See Everything (but with spoilers about the second half this time) and examine the way art can reveal deeper meaning in a way nonfiction can't.

All of our various ways of pretending eventually rack up a bill that comes due. What happens when the stories we wear as disguises become threadbare, and reality shows through?

Distrust, but Verify: Can You Recognize Truth When You See It? | MTS #29 youtu.be/qHKS-aivm2c?si… via @YouTube @kalezelden @SteveSkojec

🚨MTS EPISODE #28 DETECTED! 🚨

Everybody's talking about @nathanfielder's Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything, so @SteveSkojec and @kalezelden both went to see it this week.

Steve's now seen it twice.

They filmed Holmes sixteen hours a day, and you still walk out not knowing where the performance ends.

On the new episode, they try to figure out why, and it takes them to managed reality, the flying Tesla Roadster, and the high church of Silicon Valley.

You Can't See Anything | Elizabeth Holmes, Nathan Fielder & Managed Real... youtu.be/GcKlZQ0sLuU?si… via @YouTube