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Peter Joseph: We Are All Subjected To The Same Natural Law System

13 years ago, I sat down with Peter Joseph, musician, filmmaker, and founder of the Zeitgeist Movement.

His argument was simple, and uncomfortable: the system we live under (debt-based money, work-for-survival economics, infinite growth on a finite planet) isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed. And it’s running out of runway.

In 2013, this sounded radical. In 2026, it sounds like a weather report.

We covered a lot of ground in 75 minutes: the Resource-Based Economy, the role of Artificial Intelligence in managing scarcity, the schism between Zeitgeist and the Venus Project, sustainability, central planning, and the technological singularity itself.

You don’t have to agree with Peter to take the conversation seriously. I don’t agree with all of it. But the questions he was asking back then are the questions we’re being forced to ask now, except we’re asking them in an era when AI systems can actually do things he could only theorize about.

The technology has caught up with the critique. The philosophy hasn’t caught up with the technology.

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AI-Based Cancer Models in Oncology: From Diagnosis to ADC Drug Prediction

Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) has been influencing the way oncology has been practiced. Major issues constituting a bottleneck are the lack of data for training purposes, confidentiality preventing development, or the absence of transparency in clarifying how models operate to generate decisions. Novel Models With explainable AI, trust and utilization barriers among clinicians, researchers, and patients can be removed. With the implementation of federated learning, multiple institutions could contribute to crucial dataset’s learning information. Precise diagnosis and prescription of the right drug are essential in preventing unnecessary life losses, and economic burden to the underling system.

The Growing Cybersecurity Risks To The Supply Chain In The AI Era

#cybersecurity #suppychains #ai #tech

Supply chains are a primary target for cybercriminals and provide the foundation of global commerce in the hyper-connected digital ecosystem of today. Artificial intelligence (AI) simultaneously exacerbates vulnerabilities as it revolutionizes operations through predictive analytics, automation, and real-time visibility. Sophisticated threat actors, ransomware groups, and nation-state actors employ AI to exploit the vulnerable links in intricate, multi-tiered supply networks.

Artificial intelligence can create dual-use dynamics. It promotes efficiency by facilitating real-time data transfers and hyper-connected operations, while simultaneously significantly expanding the attack surface. Compromises of a single vendor or update have been shown to have a cascading effect on economies, governments, and critical infrastructure through supply chain attacks.

In The AI Era, Supply Chains Are Prime Targets.

The complexity of supply chains is inherent, as they encompass continents, jurisdictions, and a multitude of third-party vendors, contractors, and software components. Each link—whether it be legacy systems, unvetted code, IoT devices, or 5G-enabled connections—provides potential entry points. AI exacerbates these risks by allowing attackers to automate reconnaissance, create polymorphic malware that evades detection, create personalized phishing campaigns, and identify vulnerabilities quicker than defenders can apply patches.

Commercial Space Economy: Space Stations, Space Data Centers, and NASA

Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau, authors of Space to Grow, explain the commercial space economy and the role of NASA, Artemis, commercial space stations, space-based data centers, Starlink, GPS, China’s space program, national security, and space governance.

The conversation covers how governments, private companies, and investors build, fund, regulate, and compete in space, from microgravity research and launch markets to lunar exploration, space resources, and the economics of commercial space.

We also try and re-write the Space Treaty and look at the politics of the space race.

Please enjoy the show.

Thinking on Paper is a technology podcast about AI, Space, quantum computing, science, and the systems shaping the future.

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The Commoditization of Intelligence: Why AI Aggregators Will Beat Foundation Models

Everyone is currently watching the major tech giants throw billions of dollars at the AI arms race, cheering for whichever foundation model happens to top the leaderboards this week.

It is an incredible spectacle to watch unfold, but focusing too closely on the tech itself might mean we are missing the actual business revolution happening right under our noses.

We have seen this exact economic shift before. The biggest winners of the internet era weren’t the ones who built the physical infrastructure or supplied the goods; they were the platforms that organized the supply and owned the user relationship. The same economic laws are now coming for artificial intelligence, actively turning “intelligence” into a basic, interchangeable utility.

The real value moving forward is no longer in the models themselves, but in the seamless interfaces that aggregate them. If you want to protect your business from vendor lock-in and position your team for ultimate flexibility, it is time to rethink your approach.

Read my full blog post to dive into why the future of AI belongs to the aggregators, and how your business can strategically capitalize on this shift.

We spend an enormous amount of time obsessing over the titans of the AI arms race. Every single week seems to bring a breathless new headline about OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, or Meta releasing a foundation model that edges out the competition on some obscure benchmark test. We find ourselves endlessly arguing over parameter counts, context windows, and raw reasoning capabilities, captivated by a multi-billion-dollar war unfolding in real-time.

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Deep Dive: The Agentic AI Economy

The Moat: The moat is no longer how smart your AI is; it’s what your AI is allowed to touch. An agent that has “Write Access” to a company’s internal financial system or a medical record database is 100x more valuable than a “smart” chatbot that can only read public websites. Connectivity is the new Intellectual Property.

In the agentic economy, the most valuable human skill isn’t “coding” or “writing”—it is Agentic Orchestration.

The agentic economy thrives on Data Flywheels. As an agent performs a task (e.g., “Review this legal contract”), it gets human feedback (“This clause was too aggressive”). That feedback isn’t just a correction; it’s training data that makes the agent more valuable for the next task. This creates a winner-take-all dynamic for whoever has the most active agents in a specific niche.

We are moving toward an outcome-based economy. However, the real “gold rush” isn’t in building the smartest AI; it’s in building the safest and most connected AI—the one that humans trust enough to give the “keys” to their bank accounts, their calendars, and their businesses.

New rules for used prosthetic feet could curb ‘medical equipment graveyards’

Researchers have proposed new standards into the decades-old prosthetic donations market, improving the quality of lower limb prosthetic feet by two-thirds—a major quality of life boost for recipients.

An interdisciplinary team of charities, prosthetists and academics led by King’s College London designed and implemented the very first set of standardized regulations for exporting prosthetic feet to the Global South, reducing unusable donations from 16% to 5%.

In so doing, the team have laid the foundation for improved prosthetics provision in the UK and an ethical framework for a global circular economy of prosthetics—the first of its kind.

This Magnetic Field Trick Creates Entirely New Forms of Matter

Scientists have shown that changing magnetic fields in precise ways can create exotic quantum matter that does not normally exist. The discovery could eventually lead to more reliable quantum technologies and powerful new computing systems.

Quantum technology is widely seen as one of the most promising future tools for processing massive and complicated amounts of information. Although most quantum systems are still confined to laboratories and research facilities, scientists are steadily working toward applications that could eventually impact industries across the economy.

Magnetic fields and exotic quantum states.

Inference is the True Point of Sale for Our Forthcoming Token Economy

In our last conversation, we opened up the hood of the artificial intelligence engine to look closely at tokens. We talked about them as the raw materials of this new digital world—the invisible gears and cogs constantly churning in the dark to process language, calculate probabilities, and synthesi

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