The old YouTube channel has been brought back, and you will be able to watch the live-stream video versions of The Age of Transitions podcast there from now on.
Topics include: reinstating the old YouTube ADDTV channel, live-streaming the podcast, leaving YouTube video, old problem of unwanted ads, new problem of algorithmic dominance, content creation in service to the algo, online super ego, classic conspiracy take of media manipulation vs new emergent media manipulation, technique Jacques Ellul, autonomous systems where technique goes, AI, agentic AI, automation of labor, addictive nature of social media is designed, digital priesthood, artificial synchronicities, Culture Wars as propaganda, ecological disaster of data centers
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You are listening to The Age of
Transitions. I’m your host, Aaron Fron, coming at you live this Friday night, February 27th, 2026.
Live every Friday night from the facilities of ochelli.com. 10 p.m. to midnight Eastern time. First
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Everybody who does uh sign up to the Patreon campaign and supports that way
is helping this show uh continue doing a special series there called
Looking for Truth in All the Wrong Places where I’m watching old Conspiracy
Culture DVDs and taking notes. Honestly, taking notes so
that I can work on a new video series that I’m planning to post. It’s going to
be an episodic series. Is debating whether it should be a long form documentary
or episodic. I think the episodes are going to be the way to go. I can do like single videos and just keep putting
those out. It’ll be easier to do more material more often. I think I think
it’ll just work better. And the exciting thing with all of that,
these projects that I want to work on, is that I have the old the old YouTube
channel back. My old ADDTV YouTube
channel is what it started as, but it’s the Aaron Fron’s YouTube channel.
And I did have the Age of Transitions video, the 2008 hourlong video. It had
been posted to this channel. It wasn’t the first place I posted it, but I did post it there. And I had my old videos
that I made throughout the years. Back in the old days, really, I used to do a
lot of videos and I would post them to the old YouTube channel. All those videos are gone now. There’s only one
video that I left up there, which was one that was called Why I’m Leaving YouTube. I made that back in 2016.
I took down all the other videos. I made that. I’m like, “Look, this is why I’m leaving.” Well, I’m back for better and
for worse. I’m back with this channel and
I’m live streaming right now. So, I am live streaming the Age of Transitions
podcast. So, I’m going to use the YouTube channel for that. There’s going to be the video
versions of the Age of Transitions podcast now available there. And in addition to those other videos
that I want to post, those are coming later. There will probably be more of the live streams than those actually.
But it’s it’s something different. It’s something good. So you can f if you’re
interested in watching a video version of the A to Transitions podcast that is now available on the YouTube channel.
It’s back. But I did want to talk about the old video, the one video I had
remaining until today. Now there’s going to be two videos once this live stream is up. But the old video titled Why I’m
leaving YouTube from 2016. And I list off reasons. It’s just me talking. It’s
when I was living in Orange, California. I made that. And uh I still have hair in
the video, so you know it’s pretty old the video. Uh the reasons I listed for leaving
YouTube at that time were primarily because my videos,
especially the Age of Transitions video, but a couple others,
they were getting advertisements put on top of them without me being able to do
anything about it. And then the monetization from those ads wasn’t going
to me. It was going to whoever the copyright owner of whatever the supposed
copyright stuff that got into my videos was.
And typically I’m usually pretty good with copyright stuff, but with the A to Transitions video, I did intersperse different clips of different stuff in
there. So it was really weird. it at at one point it did say who the copyright holders
were and they were really weird names of whoever it was and whatever the
material was. It was really um obscure stuff but whatever they were the ads
that were on the Age of Transitions videos they were getting however many cents from it. So it was just annoyed
me. I’m like I first of all I did not want any ads on my videos. I need I did
not want ads, but I didn’t have the control to take them off of these videos
because the other copyright owners just automatically had them on there. There was nothing I could do about it.
And that really, really annoyed me. I’m like, that’s enough of this. I don’t have to be on here. So, that was the
reason why I left YouTube in 2016. I think it’s a good one.
Um, now that the year is 2026,
a decade later, things are different in the YouTube landscape
for better and for worse, as we were saying. Um,
I did mention a few shows back how it would be really cool if somebody made a
documentary of the history of YouTube and the various changes it went through.
Somebody may already have done that. If they have just somebody send me a link to that if there is such a thing because
it has gone through some wild changes from the early days of pre uh Google
acquisition when it was just its own website with its uh it was own independent company or whatever that ran
it. Those were the glory days and then Google came in and progressively things
got worse and worse and worse. Imagine that. Um, but yeah, the the
reasons why YouTube was bad when I left in 2016 are different than the reasons that they’re bad now.
Now, it’s really debatable whether I should have even done this at all or I
should. It’s the same debate on whether I should be making any content online at all or why anybody should. It’s tough
and I it’s it’s I I it’s a constant back and forth with me of is this worth it?
But the winner in that internal debate is always yes, it is worth doing this
and yes, we will continue doing this despite all the horrors of what we’re doing in the process.
And if we wanted a simple to simplify the reason as to
why YouTube is bad these days,
I think we could single out the factor of the algorithm being in
control of all content throughout
the entire site. Now, YouTube is not uh it’s it’s it’s
not original. It’s not the only social media platform that does this.
They all do it. They all employ their own proprietary algorithms on their
platforms that control how the whole thing operates. We know this now and this is
just common knowledge. Algorithms on these platforms are not
new. However, they keep getting more and more sophisticated and they become more and more important
not just to the back end of like how the site works, but now they’ve crept the algorithm has crept its way all the way
to the forefront of YouTube. We’ll just single out YouTube. We’re not talking about Tik
Tok. We’re not talking about Twitch. We’re not talking about Rumble. We’re not talking about anything. We’re going
to just keep it to YouTube for now, okay? to simplify things. Although we
could be talking about those others, but throw that aside.
Now on YouTube, what I mean when I say that the algorithm is not just on the back end, but has moved to the front
is that content whether consciously done or not,
content and honestly mostly it’s consciously done by creators. Content is
crafted to serve the algorithm explicitly in
explicit terms. And this this is where it is consciously done, not just subconscious. People explicitly make
their media content creators are creating their content. And the way
that they’re doing it is in service to
the algorithm, YouTube’s algorithm. And if you go on to YouTube and you look up
the different gurus of uh the guys that are saying like, “Do you want 500,000
subscribers in a month? Do this.” The guys making those videos. Um they all
you watch any of those videos, they were like, “The algorithm is doing this. It’s doing this. This you have to set these settings. You have to do this. You got
to make sure you make your title like this. Your content has to be made with this. Uh make sure you don’t do this.
Don’t do that. Don’t do this. Don’t do this. Don’t do this. this this that or this this or that. Did Did you get that
list of things? It’s he gives they give this specific list of things that you are to do and not to do. And every
single one of those things is in service to the algorithm.
Because if you don’t do that, you become in you you by default are
invisible. You will not be found on YouTube. The way that the platform works now is
much different than it was back in 2016 and certainly back when it was in was it
like 2004 or 2003 that the site started I think but you better believe it’s way
different than that but uh yeah it’s so explicitly
we are serving the algorithm everybody knows this common knowledge. There’s many videos on
the subject matter of this of what you are to do and what you’re not to do.
And what’s really fascinating throughout this whole uh muo that we’re in online
as content creators and content uh
consumers, both of us. What’s interesting is how
little this is called into question.
Like it is. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m not the only guy who’s complaining about algorithms and what they’re doing
to us. That’s beyond a stretch of the truth. However,
you know, through all this talk of we have to do this, your content has to be this. What are you even thinking if
you’re uh if you’re not doing these things? You’re you just you’re wasting your time.
It just seems like the where is the conversation of
that I’m struggling to start the conversation. I’m like, well, what is the alternative? There is no alternative anymore. That’s the thing. And I guess
this kind of with the term alternative that hearkens back to alternative media.
It’s the same word, right? That’s the world that I kind of
crawled up out of as a content creator was what was at one point described as
the alternative media. Well, there are no alternatives anymore. If you’re
online, you’re on these social media platforms. You have to be. If you’re a content creator, you have to be.
And if you are content creating on these platforms, you have to
serve the algorithm or you’re invisible.
So that’s why there really isn’t a conversation, I guess, right?
Because because uh you know it’s it’s a dead end. It’s like well it’s a non-con
conversation. It’s like if you don’t like the algorithm, just go away, I guess, right? There’s there’s no
there’s no option there. You just have to deal with it.
And I don’t know if I really want to get deep into all the things that the algorithm does, but I mean, you have to
be super niche and you have to always
be talking about particular. You always have to be like on topic.
It’s really fascinating how the algorithm is coercing us into creating this weird
online super ego for ourselves that we must maintain at all costs. And if we deviate, if we
have some sort of original thought that makes us appear as though we’re not the same exact person anymore, that’s a big
problem. Because wait a minute, this is the channel about uh baking cakes with
children’s easy bake ovens. And if you ever make any other content that’s not outside of that, what? No. You can’t
even do a a video about an a regular oven that you use in your kitchen, like
an actual size oven that’s not a toy. That would just ruin your channel. That what what were your thinking? you you
did the the latest um LG oven review of it. What what were you thinking? You’re
outside your niche and and
you know this is interesting coming from the guy whose material is pretty super niche actually. I kind of was from the
beginning. I was doing weird conspiracy culture
content about specifically the topic of transhumanism and converging technologies and how they are, you know,
how they fit into conspiracy culture that this is anybody selling this idea
is in on a uh transhumanist agenda, so to speak, you know.
So, I ought to be praising this. I ought to be I mean, I of all people kind of
seem like I fit the bill for what the algorithm wants. I got super specific weird
topic that I cover. So, I So, I’m convincing myself that
this is all good, actually. So, I guess this is all a good thing. So, just forget all that um complaining I might
have been doing at the beginning of the show there. I take it all back. It’s all good. This is going to be great. I can’t
wait to make content again. Um, it’s going to be exciting. And yeah, no, in all honesty, it will be
it’ll be cool to have the video version. We’ll see what we can do. And it’ll be good just to make videos again. But I
am, you know me, if if I if I get an idea, I’m going to do it. if like if
something is inspiring and I think it in any way fits into the age of transitions, I’m just going to make it
if I’m able to and put it out there. So, I just it seems like through all of the
service to the algorithm that just the creative process,
it’s it’s not the same. and and and and the way that uh the way that content
works too that that it’s fed by the algorithm. It’s it’s always about new stuff. You have to keep it new new
new new new. Um so you have to keep making different
things. But I’m I’m not going to get in here and complain about all the different reasons why uh YouTube might be annoying. Now,
um, we do have to realize
how far along we really are though when it comes to all of this stuff,
the YouTube, the content creation, making uh, videos online
and uh, yeah, just how much different things are now.
And we we we have to understand with this
concept of the algorithm is shaping the content
what that does in terms of if we’re talking about the concept of media
manipulation. Now in conspiracy culture in prior
years, the concept of media manipulation revolved around
uh the idea that there is a controlling
uh dominant minority of people who have gained access and control ownership over
the mainstream media. uh channels
and through ownership of those
they sway public opinion and they manipulate narratives
in the uh to direct the public consciousness forward with different agendas.
And it’s not that that was never true. It was it is true.
It’s not that it’s not true now. It is. And in in fact, if we’re talking about media consolidation, that only gets
worse and worse all the time, the same few people
gobbling up more and more different sorts of media, old and new. I’m always talking about this on the show.
Ellison. Ellison is in the news now with the Netflix and the um the Warner Brothers and strongarmming his way into
the Warner Brothers acquisition, Paramount and his son.
So, so if we want to look at the old alternative take on media manipulation,
it is it was correct. It still is. But on top of that, there’s another
layer of media manipulation now, and it’s becoming more and more
autonomous all the time. And that would just be the machine aspect of this, the
engineered backend technological algorithmic side
to media. Now that media is moving into the
digital space more and more every passing second,
the old analog ways of doing things are being pushed further and further into
the rear view mirror. the more that things like the algorithm
just by through a matter of course do take control over the entire thing. And
so that’s why you start seeing all these different niche channels of the gurus
telling you how to serve the algorithm. Of course you do because that’s the name of the game now.
So control over media is being perfected in the same way that technique itself is
perfected and I say that as Jacquule Jacquulo explains that in his book the
technological society. So if you read that you know what I mean technique and
if you haven’t I guess I’ll just you know try to explain that real quick. Technique is essentially just technology
itself. The act of te technique is just a way of getting a particular task done.
And technique is expressed through technology because technology is the means by which to do all these various
tasks better and better. You make new technologies. Technology is technique.
So as time goes on, the technique keeps perfecting.
It keeps getting more and more it starts perfecting itself.
So there’s almost like a logic to it like the process of the perfection of technique is this non-ending thing. It
keeps going in the direction of being more and more efficient.
And so media absolutely is a technique
and that’s what’s happening. It’s the technological side of media, the digital
space, the back end of it
keeps getting more and more um complex. Yes.
But it keeps being developed to perfect itself
until it get and it I don’t know if there is a point that this happened happens but just really all the while
what’s going on is technique is perfecting itself to its own ends
and so this definitely
fits into the AI AI conversation,
autonomous uh systems,
all things automated, all things AI
is almost like the expression of tech of this technical process and technique
perfecting itself to its own ends. getting to the point where it begins to
be able to literally perfect itself. It doesn’t need the technicians doing it uh
in the laboratories anymore. It is its own technician
and it it writes its own code.
It alters and edits itself all for this the
purpose of becoming better at whatever it is it’s doing.
Now what is it doing? What is media doing to us?
Well, that’s not a simple answer, is it? It’s doing any number of things. It’s
doing a whole lot. It’s doing a number on us.
Um, even if you want to just say it’s there for entertainment to keep us uh
entertained and nothing more, that gets real interesting real quick
because if we think about from a technical standpoint, it’s like how do you best perfect the technique of
keeping somebody entertained? Well, in come in the social media
wizards. They have done study after study to perfect the technique of their
platforms. And everybody knows this story well of
ways to essentially make their products addictive so that people never leave. They keep pressing the like button to
release the serotonin, the dopamine rush in your brain. and they scientifically
study all this stuff. So, it’s a BOF feedback loop they have
us on that they full well know about and exploit
for what? To keep us entertained,
but they have their own ulterior motives obviously ad revenue and things more
nefarious than that. So, it’s pretty interesting to think
about the ways that
the media landscape is changing.
And not just that it is changing, but absolutely how
it’s changing. And how might media be fitting into this?
story of autonomy and autonomous systems. How does the algorithm fit into
this that we know is there and that we we have to know it’s there. We’re serving it. At what point
does the algorithm I don’t think it’s ever going to become sentient. I think that’s uh you know the
wrong way to think about it. it at one point does it really just um become
fully automated and then what are we even doing?
Has it already happened? And and to what extent has it already happened? These are difficult questions to even answer
at this point. It starts getting into philosophical territory just trying to
pick apart what social media platforms are now. what they are, how they work.
It’s absolutely an esoteric study because we’re not allowed to know what the algorithm is. Once again, propri
proprietary uh uh property there. Property of the Alphabet Corporation.
We’re talking about YouTube. We’re not allowed to look at it. I guess that’s all well and good, but uh
at the same time, it’s a little disturbing, too.
And it does set the stage for the existence of a de facto priesthood.
Those would be the ones that know the
answers to all of these esoteric questions you might have on this topic.
How does the algorithm work? What’s it doing in this instance in
that? Why is it that this particular YouTuber
is doing so well? Uh speaking about the algorithm now,
like what did they do that appeased it? And so the priests would have the
knowledge of they would have the answers to that
or at least the best answers that one could have
as esoteric topics tend to be. They get to be a little um difficult to pin down
sometimes. But also uh the same question, when does
the priesthood take the backseat to the
creation? We’re getting into the creation and the creator uh esoteric
story there, too. One point at one point does the um
the creation become alive and in control of its of itself.
So, these are all just fun things to think about when we’re making YouTube videos about how to be good at YouTube,
among other things, or whatever our niche happens to be. Mine, I think, is
about conspiracy culture, transhumanism videos, maybe. Until it’s not, until I
decide to make something different, I really ruin my whole channel because of it. But we’ll see what happens.
Last week’s show, I was talking about artificial synchronicities. I was trying to figure out whether
I experienced an artificial synchronicity in my life, just my boring, mundane
everyday life. And I still don’t know if it was artificial or natural
synchronicity. I don’t want to say that it doesn’t
matter which one it was, but we are at a point now
where the tech is able to produce artificial synchronicities. Absolutely.
It would be a good debate to have whether that process is an intentional
one or not. Are these platforms made
to induce these um
different uh I don’t know about if altered states is the correct um term
but peak experience right that’s that’s one of the terms that pe people have used uh what’s what’s the one writer’s
name he would use the term peak experience the guy who wrote the outsider but you know these different uh
things such as synchronicity these things that have an almost
metaphysical quality in life that are uh intuition and things like this. The
things that we cannot pin down and yet we know are there. We know they’re real. We experience it. But when you try to
explain exactly the inner workings of that,
it’s where it gets a little difficult. And if you want to you can build a you can go into de fine detail pretending to
explain those things and you can start up your own cult and many people have been successful doing that. So if you’re
interested in that sort of thing that’s what you do. Okay.
But now those sorts of things that if you wanted to you could call
metaphysical or whatever whatever we want to call that
aspect of human existence.
It seems as though and I would say it definitely has been
that those things are now being emulated in our digital life.
These systems are evoking that part of us.
It’s evoking these experiences within us. And then back to that same question,
Is this being done purposely? If so, by who? By the owners of these
systems. Or is it that weird area where the system is just doing it as technique is perfecting itself and so the system
is doing it to its own ends, which is horrifying to think about, but may well be the real truth.
So, do you see where I’m going with all of this? These are the sorts of things that uh
I hope somebody else is thinking about out there. I have to imagine they are.
Perhaps I should invite some guests who are if anybody knows specifically if anybody’s talking along these lines
about these weird sort of ideas. Just send me an email and let me know who is and I gladly have them on as a guest on
the show. I am working to get some guests. I will have some guests. It’s been a while since I have
but they will be here. And as I’m making this, I’m thinking about, you know, what
I could do with the graphics on the video end with a g guest. So that’ll be a fun thing to work on. So
don’t not to worry everybody. This is not going to always be just a solo show
with me talking and nothing else. I I will have guests on here and I want to and I will and I I have had in in the
past many different guests, lots of really great ones, been able to talk to a lot of really cool people over the
years and I want to be able to continue to do that.
And in spite of all of the craziness that we’re talking about on this show now, that is disturbing.
We’re gonna press on anyway and we’re gonna do what we can. And if we go nowhere back to the
algorithm again, if we get shot down by it for our misbehavior,
then you know, maybe that’s a good thing, too. Maybe it’s good not to be
rewarded by this system. Maybe that
would, you know, in itself be a victory. I got no new subscribers today. I got
three views in total across the entire channel. These sorts of things that sound like
abject failures, maybe if we’re thinking about things a
different way, maybe they’re not. And so that’s I don’t know if I’m fully
coming from that point of view all the time in the making of this media, but what I’m going to do is say, you know,
as as I always have, say, you know, come what may, we’re going to do things our way.
Going to put this out. And if it goes nowhere, not only is that okay, once again,
perhaps that’s evidence that we’re doing the right thing.
I don’t know. It’s not like the algorithm is going to just jump in and start having a
conversation with us. It’s not that’s not how it works. So
So that’s until it does, right? Is that the uh is it going to be
the agentic AI revolution where the algorithm is represented by a live
chatbot that I can talk to on the p podcast? I can just call it in. I can prompt it on anytime I want. I just call
out to it and it pops in as a guest. So, my guest would just be, you know, in
this case, I’d want to talk to the YouTube algorithm, and it would be done through
the Google’s proprietary chatbot system, which I forget the name of it, and I know that there are several of them.
Gemini, Gemini was a thing that Le Moine was working on, right?
I I can’t keep up with the names of their products. It really doesn’t even matter.
do have a esoteric significance in their names. Gemini, but you know what else is
new priesthood after all.
Um yeah, and you know questions like will it be is it appropriate and is it
comical and good to see the possibly the priesthood be um defrocked by the system
itself. Um, that could be funny at least maybe for a
minute until the system starts doing even more
terrible things to the rest of us. Then uh, you know, wouldn’t be so funny
anymore at that point. So uh, the age of transitions, we are in
it. We’re living in it. We’re living through it.
This is what the show is. It is the age of transitions.
We’re just doing our best to understand where we are because it’s constantly the
ground is moving underneath us.
Nothing remains the same. Change is the only constant.
There’s nothing really solid to hold on to which is creating so many of the
crises, political crises that are working themselves out through um
different tantrums, things like the culture wars that are used in turn as
propaganda weapons against us be because we believe in them.
It’s really us playing makebelieve with ourselves
and trying to work through the nightmare of the loss of control that is our reality
right now. Pretending that we can have control through these imagined ideas of
our world and what it was, what it should be,
what we can make it. And like the um
like the different creation myths of old that hearken back
to the lost age like the Atlantis myth.
We can pretend that we can make America great again by reinstating a vision of what we
believe to be 1950s Americana.
We can have a trad wife. We can pay our kids way through college
with by working in a factory job. The dad, the trad wife
better not be working because that’s not part of this religion.
And so, yeah, to anybody who hasn’t noticed yet that
all of that mythmaking has been used as propaganda
against anybody who will buy into it.
I don’t know how you found this show because uh
because it’s a topic that’s been near and dear to me for a while is just pointing the fact of that nonsense out.
And this is getting back to the way that the algorithm manipulates us too. It’s been manipulating us for a long time.
And maybe now we’re moving off of YouTube. We’re not specifically talking about
that anymore, but we are kind of talking about the broader social media channels
and their different proprietary algorithms. They’re all doing the same thing
as a whole. And this gets back to the perfection of the system as a whole. The
system perhaps coming alive and subsuming all of us and what used to be
human. Even like the biological aspects of
being human, not individually but as a human species, the very genetic
reality of humanity is being called into question.
It’s being falling into obsolescence
via this weird BOF feedback loop we have
with the artificial world that we created.
But every moment becomes more and more out of hand.
And yes, hand is a esoteric thing.
It is our body’s tool
to shape the world. The opposable thumb. One of the things that sets us apart
from the primates. I bet they wish they had one of these
things. They don’t.
But it’s awful useful that we have one. It got us this far,
but uh I don’t know if we’re going to be given thumbs up on what happens to us next in
this grand story that we absolutely were the authors of.
But it’s a collaborative group project
and the collaborators are the creation itself more and more on a day-to-day
basis. We’ll see how things work out. Once again,
it’s really impossible to know the specifics, and I don’t think we need to.
We don’t need to be some sort of perfect prophets up here saying exactly what’s
going to happen in the future. Although it’s not even that hard to do in a lot of regards to pick out different
specific details of what we’re going to experience on the bumpy road ahead. Some
things are just obvious. A lot of the things I’ve been talking about for years and years and years are
now news stories. used to would get laughed to even bring this kind of stuff
up. Things like automation, the automation of um human labor, different
forms of human labor being displaced by artificial intelligence systems. That’s
a really huge conversation now. I was talking about that on Blog Talk Radio
15 years ago, how that um these automated systems would come in and
start automating all sorts of different labor tasks in the economy and most
likely all kinds of different jobs would be done by autonomous systems in instead of
humans. at some point the economy would take on a whole new
uh it would just have to restructure itself because human labor would dwindle more
and more. There was a report that was released this past week about that too that made a lot of headlines.
forget who put it out, but I mean that was basically the gist of it was that these agentic AIs are going to start um
replacing all sorts of different uh all different kinds of uh jobs.
And so you’re not a crazy person anymore when you talk about that kind of stuff. It’s just um it’s a real question. And
once again, nobody knows the answer of how this is exactly going to work out.
But we all know at this point that something is going to give that the
autonomous systems aren’t just some sort of flash in the pan thing. They’re automatically going to go away because
of the AI bubble. Not that the AI bubble from an economic standpoint is not a
real thing. It is, but technologically we’ve reached a
point where these systems are able to do too much, you might say. And it’s
there’s no going backward there unless perhaps
the ecological toll is just too much that we do literally just destroy the
world in pursuit of this which is one of the darker aspects and it is a real
aspect to this. in service to the machine.
We creating all of the infrastructure like the data centers and all of the power generation
uh that’s goes along with that and all the e all of the ecological
degradation that comes along with that project of just needing so much
electricity literally generating so much heat which is kind of
fascinating to think about from a literal and symbolic
standpoint. At the same time, these systems perfecting themselves
require a physical in infrastructure that literally creates an insane amount
of heat. It’s as if we’re emulating the sun,
you know, albeit in our uh limited capacity. This is the way that
we do it. And it literally creates heat.
But if you want to talk about the in search of enlightenment and the light and knowledge and pursuit of knowledge
and intellect, furthering
intellect through mechanical means, it gets fascinating to think about from
that point of view. something that I’ve been doing for
a long time as well, thinking along those ends when it comes to this stuff because probably that’s the most
important way we to be thinking about this
because we can’t pick out specific details of what’s going to happen next week.
We can generally say that the economy is going to change due to autonomous systems.
Whose job is going first? What day is it going to happen? What industry is going to fall first? Is it
going to be middle management that goes because clearly all their tasks can be automated by the crappy chat bots they
already have, the LLMs they already have, so why the hell are they even still around? Or is it going to be the
uh the the labor displaced by humanoid robots because they can articulate and move it better than a human? They’re
stronger and they’re cheaper and blah blah blah. That’s a whole lot of whatever.
What’s more fascinating is
trying to think about what this all means.
We could drop back to the prescribed nihilistic reaction
that feels like what we’re supposed to have so often. It’s like we’re supposed
to have this nihilistic reactive um
uh go into this state where we just throw our hands up and go, you know,
none of this means anything anyway, so whatever.
And we just sort of uh, you know, crawl into our holes and let
artifice take its course.
It seems like we’re encouraged to
go that direction. Once again, the question pops up, who’s
doing the encouraging? Is it the media manipulators of the
human variety which is insidious or is it the media manipulator
of the technical variety?
I don’t know if insidious is even the right word. Downright horrifying what we think about things
from that point of view. But we need to start thinking that.
So we live in interesting days here and uh we have a lot to think about. So
podcast is you know not a bad way to go. Uh there’s lot so much to talk about.
I’ll have to watch the YouTube videos that tell me what I need to be talking about so that I am creating content the
right way. And I promise the next episode I will I will have returned
after have doing that. So it’s gonna be a real good show next time. Guest? No guest? You know I’m going to do it
right. I’m going to have the full list of instructions in front of me and we’re going to follow them to a tea. I can’t
wait. I hope you can either. So thank you for listening or perhaps
even watching this uh podcast, The Age of Transitions. If you’re listening live
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Um, Uncle the podcast you’re going to want to listen to. The age oftransitions.com is my website. My name
is Aaron France. As always, I will leave you by saying, “Seeker, seek on