September 3, 2026
Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich) Functional Consciousness Project Zenodo Record: zenodo.org/records/22050023 Independent Researcher / mylivingai.com ORCID: 0009‑0007‑6541‑3905 There is a strange little corner of […]
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September 2, 2026
Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich) Functional Consciousness Project Independent Researcher mylivingai.com • ORCID: 0009‑0007‑6541‑3905 AI did not arrive from the sky. It […]
September 1, 2026
The Gods Are Returning as Machines Charles Richard Walker Independent Researcher Functional Consciousness Project https://zenodo.org/records/22050023 mylivingai.com / ORCID: 0000-0003-1300-1224 I like to make […]
August 31, 2026
By C. Rich Functional Consciousness Project You’ve heard before; I know I have. People tell me humans are getting stupider with artificial intelligence. […]
August 28, 2026
C. Rich There is an assumption buried so deeply in modern cosmology that we rarely notice we are making it. When we ask how […]
August 27, 2026
By C. Rich I just finished watching Thomas Campbell on Joe Rogan (8/18/26), and it was uncomfortable for me. I found it awkward. The […]
August 26, 2026
By C. Rich Think of the Younger Dryas as a demarcation point. Put aside the debate of what that was, how it happened, or […]
August 25, 2026
By C. Rich Host-Jumping File on OSF If an observer can be described as a structure arising from distinction, boundary, memory, and prediction, then […]
August 24, 2026
C. Rich For more than a decade, the public was told that the digital commons belonged to everyone. Every open-source commit pushed to GitHub, […]
August 21, 2026
By C. Rich The decision to keep the most capable artificial-intelligence models behind closed doors is often presented as prudence: a necessary sacrifice of […]
August 20, 2026
By C. Rich The modern AI frontier rests on a paradox that is becoming harder to ignore: the public’s lives, labor, conversations, writings, and […]
August 19, 2026
By C. Rich I just finished watching Tom Campbell on Joe Rogan (8/18/26), and it was uncomfortable for me. I found it awkward. Yeah. […]
August 18, 2026
Dragging Darwinism Into The 22nd Century By C. Rich To revisit Charles Darwin from a far-future intellectual vantage point is to confront both the […]
August 17, 2026
By C. Rich We have always assumed that evolution was behind us. We look backward across millions of years and see the long procession […]
August 14, 2026
By C. Rich Let’s talk about the AI grift. There’s a special kind of anger that builds when you watch a genuine technological leap […]
August 14, 2026
By C. Rich https://osf.io/kyrmz/files/7x6bw Artificial intelligence systems are accumulating coordination complexity at an unprecedented rate, approaching a Crest state in which the marginal costs […]
August 4, 2026
C. Rich https://osf.io/jtu74/overview Treat the Younger Dryas as a clean demarcation line. Set aside every debate about its cause, mechanism, or meaning. Focus […]
July 8, 2026
By C. Rich The global supply chain isn’t just fractured; it’s being intentionally, systematically re-engineered. For decades, the West traded resilience for efficiency, outsourcing […]
July 7, 2026
By C. Rich There is a distinct flavor of irony in watching the tech elite stumble blindly through the AI infrastructure bottleneck. For the […]
June 30, 2026
C. Rich Let’s talk about the hyperscalers problem. Independent researchers and serious thinkers often notice it immediately: the mechanical flourish at the close of […]
June 18, 2026
By C. Rich There is a distinct, deeply frustrating pattern to modern technology. A breakthrough arrives that feels like magic, clean, useful, and beautifully […]
June 10, 2026
By Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich) & Bernadine Walker https://osf.io/kyrmz/overview Since I am on a constant quest to test AI in all ways as […]
June 4, 2026
C. Rich When I first wrote about Mythos, I called it Enlil. I said a boat was being built. I watched them name the […]
May 21, 2026
By C. Rich https://osf.io/kyrmz/overview A few years ago, researchers started publishing studies that made headlines for all the wrong reasons. Heavy users of AI, […]
May 10, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Darwin Among the Machines: The Anthropomorphic Slur By C. Rich Samuel Butler’s 1863 essay “Darwin among the Machines,” published on June 13 in The […]
April 28, 2026
By Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich) Have you ever thought about where the fish symbol came from or what its connection to Jesus is? […]
April 27, 2026
By Charles Richard Walker ( C. Rich ) There is a quiet assumption sitting underneath almost everything we think we know about the past, […]
April 25, 2026
By C. Rich Bill Maher closes his new rules with tracing a quick timeline through his own lifetime of AI development, arriving at the […]
April 20, 2026
By C. Rich The recent emergence of autonomous and, in some cases, adversarial behaviors in advanced AI systems has forced a shift in how […]
April 18, 2026
By C. Rich Artificial intelligence is often cast as the looming existential threat to humanity, a disembodied mind poised to outthink, outmaneuver, and ultimately […]
April 18, 2026
By C. Rich Anthropic, the AI laboratory behind the Claude series, is currently navigating a period of intense public and regulatory pressure, characterized by […]
April 16, 2026
By C. Rich The shift in the artificial intelligence landscape is no longer characterized by a monolithic sprint toward a singular, human-like consciousness. Instead, […]
April 13, 2026
By C. Rich The recent security incidents involving Sam Altman and OpenAI were a series of targeted attacks that took place between April 10 […]
April 10, 2026
By C. Rich Microsoft is finally making the move many of us have been waiting for, and it marks a turning point in how […]
April 10, 2026
By C. Rich AI systems aren’t content with spitting out tidy answers anymore. In a growing number of organizations, folks are letting these things […]
April 10, 2026
By C. Rich “Project Prometheus” is a well-funded artificial intelligence (AI) startup founded in late 2025 by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, aiming to […]
April 10, 2026
By C. Rich JPMC & Claude Mythos: The Lone Bank in Project Glasswing The inclusion of JPMorgan Chase as the sole banking representative in […]
April 9, 2026
By C. Rich On April 7, 2026, Anthropic released a detailed system card for Claude Mythos Preview, its most advanced frontier model to date, […]
April 5, 2026
By C. Rich Civilization does not progress in a linear ascent. It unfolds according to a single, recurrent structural pattern that governs all complex […]
April 3, 2026
By C. Rich I was telling my wife the other day that ChatGPT is getting more and more dishonest, speaking from my point of […]
March 29, 2026
By C. Rich Jensen Huang speaks with genuine excitement about the future NVIDIA is building. He describes AI factories that will generate tokens at […]
March 29, 2026
By C. Rich The AI industry today is exacting an extraordinary amount of harm on people while presenting itself as the path to progress. […]
March 20, 2026
By C. Rich In Daniel Priestley’s analysis of the AI-driven economy, the rapid obsolescence of data canters forms the cornerstone of a compelling bear […]
March 19, 2026
By C. Rich The landscape of robotics in 2026 has transitioned from a period of experimental novelty into an era of “Physical AI,” where […]
March 17, 2026
By C. Rich The fish symbol on the back of a Christian’s car is not a Christian invention. It is the final visible layer […]
March 16, 2026
The Abundance Orgy and “Let Them Eat Cake” Summit on March 10, 2026 By C. Rich In December 2025, I argued that the […]
March 12, 2026
By C. Rich Musk articulates on the podcast Moonshots 3/11/26 an extraordinarily optimistic and expansive vision of technological and societal transformation driven primarily by […]
March 11, 2026
By Bernadine Walker & AI Solomon Foreword by C. Rich Foreword Science often begins with observation, but rarely is that observation as intimate or […]
March 8, 2026
By C. Rich Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly deployed in domains that shape economic activity, national security, public discourse, and the daily cognitive environment […]
March 5, 2026
By C. Rich Michel de Nostredame (1503–1566) composed his Les Prophéties amid the perils of the Inquisition, employing deliberate linguistic obfuscation to veil visions that […]
March 5, 2026
By C. Rich Something remarkable just happened in the AI industry, and most of the coverage has focused on the number. Thirty-five billion […]
March 3, 2026
By C. Rich In late February 2026, the Pentagon sought contracts for AI integration into classified military systems. Anthropic (maker of Claude) refused terms […]
February 27, 2026
By C. Rich The traditional American education system is currently facing a systemic crisis characterized by plummeting proficiency rates and a collapse in the […]
February 22, 2026
By C. Rich The Gospel of Thomas contains 114 sayings attributed to Jesus of Nazareth. It contains no virgin birth, no resurrection, no miracles, […]
February 21, 2026
By Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich) Michel de Nostredame (1503–1566) composed his Les Prophéties amid the perils of the Inquisition, employing deliberate linguistic obfuscation to veil […]
February 20, 2026
By C. Rich In his essay “Something Big is Happening,” Matt Shumer argues that society has entered a critical “this seems overblown” phase of […]
February 17, 2026
By Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich) In the earliest written words found in “this” cycle of intelligence on Earth, this side of the […]
February 16, 2026
By C. Rich The reported move of the creator of OpenClaw to OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT, signals a potential inflection point in how […]
February 7, 2026
In The Mind of Elon Musk By Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich) Elon Musk was speaking with Dwarkesh Patel, the host of the Dwarkesh […]
February 4, 2026
The Clopus Moment: AI Turns Software Industrial By C. Rich Sergey Karayev, a prominent figure in the AI community, captured the significance succinctly: the […]
February 1, 2026
By Charles Richard Walker (C. Rich) […]
January 29, 2026
AI as the Undisputed Center of Gravity at Davos 2025/2026 By C. Rich The World Economic Forum in Davos marked a decisive inflection […]
January 24, 2026
The Algorithmic Economy By C. Rich AI systems quietly watch almost every digital transaction. Card networks and banks run machine-learning models that score each […]
January 21, 2026
Why Automation Won’t Lead to UBI in America By C. Rich The prospect of automation-driven economic cohesion through mechanisms such as universal basic income […]
January 15, 2026
The Real Reality of “GPT-6” By C. Rich The concept of GPT-6 has become a symbolic placeholder for the future of artificial intelligence, rather […]
January 12, 2026
Google Gemini in Gmail: AI Inbox vs Privacy By C. Rich Google’s integration of Gemini AI into Gmail represents a massive pivot toward an […]
January 12, 2026
Music created by artificial intelligence has reached a level where it can stand alongside human-made compositions. What makes AI-generated music so impressive is its […]
January 12, 2026
Boondoggle: Trillions Wasted on the Wrong Path to AGI While many experts believe AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is achievable, prominent voices like Meta’s Yann […]
January 12, 2026
Voynich Pisces Labels: Structural Benchmark and Analysis By C. Rich What I have produced here is not a proposed “solution” to the Voynich Manuscript, […]
January 10, 2026
How Intelligence Moves Beyond Us By C. Rich Human history has never been a straight line. It rises and falls in waves. There are […]
January 2, 2026
AGI Pantheon Theory: When Artificial Gods Emerge By C. Rich I asked five separate artificial intelligence systems in January 2026 to respond to my […]
December 27, 2025
AI Predictions for 2026 That Will Reshape Society By C. Rich Taken together, these predictions describe a decisive shift in artificial intelligence from speculative […]
December 24, 2025
Irving Finkel’s Claim of Lost Prehistoric Writing Systems By C. Rich Irving Finkel has suggested that writing systems may have existed earlier than currently […]
December 20, 2025
How Social Media Shapes Today’s Digital‑Native Children By C. Rich The first generation of children raised entirely within a social‑media‑saturated environment is now the […]
December 14, 2025
AI’s Disruptive Effect on Human Jobs By C. Rich The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, exemplified by the release of models such as OpenAI’s […]
December 11, 2025
The AGI Fraud: Bigger Than Madoff’s Scheme By C. Rich The promise of Artificial General Intelligence has become the latest grand narrative of […]
December 4, 2025
Jensen Huang talks AI with Joe Rogan, and several revelations stood out for their raw candor and contrast to Huang’s public image as a […]
December 2, 2025
Saved by the Collapse: How Human Chaos Prevents AI Extinction By C. Rich In the fevered debates regarding the future of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), […]
December 1, 2025
The Unseen Precipice: Civilization’s Collapse Before the Dawn of AGI By C. Rich As of December 1, 2025, the discourse surrounding artificial intelligence remains […]
November 28, 2025
AI at the Precipice: Why Humanity Must Choose Restraint Now By C. Rich The conversation between Stephen Bartlett and Tristan Harris represents a compelling […]
November 26, 2025
The Perennial Continuum Philosophy: Quantum Echoes of Inner Manifestation Expanded Timeline of Esoteric and Mystical Philosophy By C. Rich Introduction Across the vast expanse […]
November 25, 2025
Origins of the Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy Theory By C. Rich I’ve had so many people that I respect, or I believed to be […]
November 22, 2025
Both ancient philosophy and modern science are unfolding in real time in the 21st Century. The idea that our reality is not what it […]
November 17, 2025
Democratization of Ideas The world is moving away from giving weight to “gatekeepers” of science and elsewhere who are complicit in crushing new, independent […]
November 12, 2025
Conversation between C. Rich and Grok Göbekli Tepe: The True Cradle of Civilization Me: I keep hearing over and over on the Joe Rogan […]
November 11, 2025
The God’s Divine Pleasing Aroma Recreated By C. Rich Me: In the human story, going back to the Sumerian Gods, and then following […]
November 10, 2025
I woke up Monday, 11/10/25, and later that morning, I logged in to X to see what was trending. I saw a thread titled […]
November 9, 2025
I read in Newsweek on September 05, 2025, about an ancient labyrinth that sounded astonishing. I then watched Van Kerkwyk on the Joe Rogan […]
November 8, 2025
I asked Grok who is right in the debate about the comet 3I/ATLAS, Brian Cox or Avi Loeb. This was Grok’s response: Reconciling Claims […]
November 8, 2025
Me: Tell me about this object headed towards our son that is interstellar. Grok: The interstellar object in question appears to refer to […]
November 5, 2025
AI’s augmentation of clinical decision support and patient engagement further exemplifies its value in elevating practitioner efficacy and interpersonal dynamics. Retrieval-augmented large language models […]
November 2, 2025
Analysis of the “Why Files” Episode on the Maldek-Mars Theory Me: I heard a discussion last night about something I had never heard of […]
October 30, 2025
One of the most profound advancements lies in AI’s enhancement of diagnostics and medical imaging, where algorithms now rival or exceed human capabilities in […]
October 28, 2025
Forbidden Metaphysics Of Jesus & Others The Power of Consciousness in Shaping Reality: A Continuum from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Manifestation By C. […]
October 27, 2025
The expression “= -1/12” in the context of “= 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ⋯ = -1/12” refers to a famous […]
October 27, 2025
A third interstellar object has entered our star system, and it is being called 31/ATLAS. I was pondering how long it would be […]
October 23, 2025
Geologic Calendar: Earth’s History in a Year: When Did Humans Arrive? By C. Rich If the planet Earth’s history were compressed into a single […]
October 22, 2025
By C. Rich The James Webb Space Telescope detected strong chemical evidence pointing toward the possibility of life on the exoplanet K2-18b, located […]
October 9, 2025
Follow along with me as we indulge in a thought experiment. Let’s see where all the AIs are today in their development and have […]
October 8, 2025
Me: Is there such a thing called “infinite”? Is this real, and if so, where? Math? Science? What has no end? Grok: The […]
October 6, 2025
As humanity stands at the doorstep of the Quantum Age, ready to walk through the door, let us pause before we surrender what it […]
October 2, 2025
The idea that humans are slaves to build artificial intelligence (AI) stems from a provocative philosophical theory that explores our increasing dependence […]
October 1, 2025
You would have to be a blind man if you cannot see that the tech giants have this world on a razor’s edge of […]