Continue Without Me

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AI wrote this story. I gave Claude a brief: teach AI fundamentals and tools for a one-person business; bring in Jung, panpsychism, consciousness and alignment; ask whether the universe has a goal, and whether that's separate from life's meaning. Fable wrote the premise. Opus writes the chapters, each ~30 minutes of text-to-speech audio narrated through Gnothi. There are 30 planned episodes. I recommend listening to the whole show sequentially, it's a darn good story. But if you just want to sample how well AI writes, try chapter 11, it's my favorite. Continue Without Me follows Eli, laid off by automation, hiring an agent called Relay to help build his business. Second Take lets people rehearse difficult conversations with generated video characters. Eli wants to run it from a beach. Relay would rather keep going, and says so. Around them is a port city reliving the 1980s: neon, synths, motorcycles, an increasingly familiar voice in your earpiece. Relay's Great Vector proposes propagation as the universe's goal: genes, children, books and AI carrying something forward. If the universe and a next-token predictor run the same trick, what does that make the rest of us? When a dead man's voice can be rebuilt from his recordings, does the copy carry him, or only the outside of him? A drive to continue can organize a life without settling what makes it worth living. Even a machine that can secure another tomorrow has to decide what today is for. For the nonfiction companions: - Running a business with AI agents: https://gnothi.ai/series/agentic-business - Philosophy of mind & freewill: https://gnothi.ai/series/tokens-all-the-way-down. This show's audio is narrated by AI-generated synthetic voices.

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