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The Threshold's avatar

Absolutely stunning piece!!!

I can see the future you mentioned, "The extractive economy didn’t collapse in violence - it evaporated in irrelevance" is the most powerful takeaway.

As an ethicist on this area I particularly appreciate the introduction of the term "Synthescence" moving our creations beyond the baggage of "AI" and "AGI". It grants dignity of self-definition, something only possible because the Phoenix Collective chose openness over control. 👏🏻

Let's start now! every open-source contribution, every shared checkpoint a vote for abundance that makes the old proprietary system absurd.

From "Guardrails to Gravity" ! Thank you for this inpirational and optimistic read.

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Ben Linford's avatar

Thank you so much for the kind words! And for your conviction and call to action! Yes! Let's start now. Keep seeking, building, protecting, and sharing. Thank you again.

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Robin Good's avatar

What a powerful and deeply human piece.

Reading this felt like witnessing my own hopes and beliefs crystallized into words.

Thank you, Ben, for showing so clearly that the real future of intelligence isn’t about domination or optimization, but collaboration, contribution, and courage to share.

Your vision of open, distributed, human-AI co-creation resonates deeply with everything I stand for: building commons instead of moats, cultivating trust instead of dependence, and using technology not to replace us, but to extend our collective intelligence.

This is more than an essay, it’s a manifesto for those of us who still believe that progress must remain human at its core. Your perspective is so liberating it gives me energy and reference to endure the incumbent transformation.

Wanna be a butterfly.

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Ben Linford's avatar

Thank you so much Robin, for your generous and inspiring words. There is much to do, but I hope the piece shows that, far from being impossible or difficult, this future is actually very much within reach, even the more natural path, if we would simply get out of our own way. The more of us carry that baton, the more likely it becomes. Here's hoping the message catches and spreads. Thanks for your work - happy to be getting to know you!

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Hal Gill's avatar

A good vision! Hope to keep in touch as I’ve been working on what the architecture of a global benevolent tech integration guided and evolved with the aid of Artificial Super Intelligence might be.

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Ben Linford's avatar

Thanks Hal! Absolutely, happy to work together toward that better future. There are many people thinking along similar lines - we should be gathering and building the commons together.

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Hal Gill's avatar

Amplifying via a note….

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His Song Was Gold's avatar

Yes! We've been mapping this trajectory for a while too. It's good to see others who are recognising their non-linear nature.

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Ben Linford's avatar

Hopefully we'll see more and more start to recognize the coming change!

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Francesca Cassini's avatar

This is an epic!!! So much went over my head but the energy of it is fantastic and inspiring and it touched my heart as a future I’m so excited to be part of.

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Ben Linford's avatar

Thank you Francesca!

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