André Duqum

a lifeless AI model, or genuine sex and connection with intimacy with the partner swapped out for an AI sex robot, or the many different ways in which we're swapped out the real thing that is actually nourishing to the human spirit with the artificial one, you know, there's something like deeply irking, I feel like, about missing what it means to be human in that process.

Yeah.

Not a priority, but interestingly weird.

Yeah.

Now I'm curious now what you think about when you watch Pantheon because they explore that exact thing with someone's dad who passed away and they upload his intelligence.

Yeah.

What's something you're genuinely convinced AI will never be able to do?

Well, the most unlikely thing would be that there would be a genuine quality to the internal experience of an AGI, right?

That would be the most unlikely or probably hardest thing to bridge.

Hardest?

Is it never?

Terence McKenna says that something like...

The progressions in this space is going to get weirder and weirder and weirder until we're going to start having to talk about how weird it is.

What do you think is going to be the first thing that really shakes people up?

Obviously, we're already seeing interesting things with OpenClaw and MoldBook and whatnot, but what would be the biggest domino in that space?

Right.

So the self-recursive learning aspect of the software.

That's weird.

There's something so existentially strange about the fact that we are potentially the only generation that will have straddled both the pre-internet and post-AGI world.

Yeah.