In this raw excerpt from *Dialogs with a Machine*, we dissect America’s pivot from building industrial AI—machines that forge, weld, and create—to perfecting digital puppeteers that control human behavior. Blending personal history (Bell Labs internships, RCA tinkering) with scathing analysis, he traces how offshoring gutted technical prowess while business elites embraced "P-code": algorithms that swipe us into submission. The essay unflinchingly parallels historical labor systems with AI’s failed promises, arguing that nations who retained hands-on ingenuity now build our future—while we scroll toward obsolescence. A requiem for the Saturn rocket builders and a warning about glowing rectangles hijacking destiny.
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"Non-Existence" argues that modern life dangerously equates mere biological life with true existence. I contend that we slip into non-existence when stripped of purposeful action – becoming passive "meat sacks with screens," consuming digital content and outsourcing agency to corporations that offer only hollow substitutes for meaning. True existence, defined by the "Jackhammer Truth," requires tangible action and awareness, grounded in aligning personal resources with responsibility. Rejecting the vortex of passive consumption (doomscrolling, delivery apps), the path back lies in small, deliberate acts of creation and care – cooking, cleaning, writing, physical exertion – where we feel the friction of real work and build something uniquely ours. Existence, therefore, is a conscious practice of reclaiming agency through purposeful engagement with the immediate world.
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Drowning in algorithm-fed dramas about "right vs. wrong" in distant conflicts? It's an ego trap, paralyzing real action. Media serves moral-flavored junk food, addicting us to judgments irrelevant to our lives while our local responsibilities starve. This chapter argues we must break free: drastically limit energy spent on uncontrollable global narratives (aim for far less than 20%!), recognize America's unique need for painful self-awareness beyond its heroic myth, and redirect our finite energy. True responsibility lies not in online judgment, but in concrete action within our immediate reach – tending our own "patch" is the only path to genuine impact and clarity.
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