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@Rizstanford Wow, I read this when I was a kid, definitely an amazing series.

Wow, this explains why I feel dead all the time.

@bendellwerry Hey, I'm here, I want to help

@BrianRoemmele No audiobook :( no problem, I'll pick it up to read. I have a long drive to and from work everyday, audiobooks have been my life. I've listened to all the books you've recommended on the 5000 days series. My favorite: Meditations

Get this book: The Borrowed Mind: Reclaiming Human Thought in the Age of AI—by John Nosta In a world flooded with breathless AI hype and doomsday warnings, John Nosta delivers something rare: a clear-eyed, deeply human reckoning with the technology reshaping our minds. As his friend and fellow explorer of this frontier, I read The Borrowed Mind with anticipation. This is not another tech manifesto. It is a passionate, unflinching invitation to remain the authors of our own thoughts. Nosta organizes the book into three powerful movements: The Promise, The Perils, and The Path Forward, mirroring the very cognitive journey he urges us to master. In The Promise, he traces the arc from Gutenberg’s words to Google’s facts to AI’s living thoughts. He introduces the “Socratic Mirror”—an infinitely patient dialogue partner that turns static knowledge into dynamic discovery and “composite intelligence,” where human and machine form something stronger together. Centaur workflows, learner-centric studios, and the rebirth of agency make this section electric with possibility. AI doesn’t replace us; it amplifies the best of us. The Perils is the book’s beating heart and its most original contribution. Nosta coins “anti-intelligence”: fluent coherence without understanding, a seductive shadow of real thought. He names the “borrowed mind,” the “coherence trap,” “amathia drift,” and the “smoothness trap” devastatingly precise terms for how convenience quietly erodes our cognitive integrity. With grace and urgency, he warns that frictionless answers can steal the very struggle that makes meaning possible. This is not fearmongering. It is friendship-level honesty. The Path Forward offers a luminous framework: “parallax cognition.” Just as two eyes create depth through separation, human and AI perspectives must remain distinct to generate true insight. Sequence matters. Guardrails matter. We must protect our cognitive baseline and treat this relationship exactly for what it is powerful, non-reciprocal, and ours to shape. The Borrowed Mind stands apart because it refuses easy answers. Nosta honors AI’s gifts while fiercely defending the irreplaceable friction of human experience. His prose is warm, philosophical, and relentlessly clear drawing on everything from the Upanishads to Flatland without ever losing the reader. To my good friend John, this book is a gift. It captures the same generous, fearless intellect I’ve admired in our conversations for years. If you care about thinking clearly in the age of borrowed brilliance, read it now. Share it widely. Let it spark the very dialogues it celebrates. We are not losing our minds to AI. With guides like John Nosta, we are finally learning how to reclaim them. Highly recommended: five stars, without hesitation. Buy it now: amzn.to/4c9kuAp

@WhitleyStrieber Its insane we got to this point. The whole area is a giant mixing bowl of a mess now.

I don't see how we are going to prevail in Iran. They have enough 60% enriched uranium to build four Hiroshima style bombs. We're not going to be able to find that uranium. And they are now making enormous amounts of money out of their control of the Straits.

We are testing Book Engine open source AI now and are absolutely blown away! The ability to track complexity in book narratives is superb. We have a big challenge planned to find the fence lines.

@BrianRoemmele Looking forward to this one, the last few felt like summaries of the previous parts, but still informative!

THE INTERREGNUM CURVE (2025-2039) I am finishing up part 23 of the Yon Have 5000 Days series. The implications I found from 1956 is more relevant in 2026 and ironically mentioned in the old text. This is massive. Out soon!

@BrianRoemmele Stay strong!

Praying for my good friend Massimo. An absolute brilliant intellect. His presence here built this place.

@elonmusk I'm saving up for my Tesla. Hopefully the prices drop just a bit!

Model Y is the best-selling car of any kind in the world!

I lectured my long term retainer clients that Sora would not last a year and significantly impact the financial aspects of the company. Perhaps permanently. Sadly I was right. They averted losing a significant amount of money. The reason why? They do not understand the future and think it was like the immediate past. They don’t understand social media. They have very old thinking. They lost a lot on this diversion, not just money, but mindshare and time. The lazy monetization will fail because it is from grandpa’s iOS and Google era. The answers are clear but I ain’t offering it for free. RIP Sora, we hardly knew ya.

@CyberStrategy1 @BrianRoemmele The simulation is highly limited to a reddit style platform the agents communicate on. Your idea needs to be specific. The prompting and seeding need to be specific. I'm still working on mine to get the results I want. For creative writing it's a whole new process than LLMs.

@Leviticus @BrianRoemmele Any lessons learned you mind sharing?

You have not heard of MiroFish and the now many Fishes but it is many times more important than OpenClaw. The original software was coded by a 20 year old from his apartment bedroom. The super power of running massive simulations is more valuable to YOU than a Claw doing email. I will have a how to using YOUR computer and our @ Home so soon. Act surprised when the “influencers” find out about MiroFish. YOU KNEW FIRST.