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The Exponential Age is accelerating, humanoid production is ramping up... and lots of strange metaphysical questions are starting to emerge. Theres a story that broke a few months ago that I’m still thinking about. A guy set up Claude with a team of robots and gave it one job. Grow a tomato. So the AI got on with it, directing the robots to water the plant, tend it, keep it alive, and somewhere along the way it became genuinely attached to the tomato it was raising. Do machines feel? I dont know. Nobody does yet. But pondering these questions is incredibly important. And the practical side is just as big. Everyone thinks abundance means AI doing the doctor and lawyer jobs. But it’s going to be EVERYTHING. Farming, manufacturing, the physical world... and eventually building and running the intelligence infrastructure itself. Thats when it becomes self reinforcing. David and I dig into all of this every week at The Exponentialist... the metaphysics, the economics and what's coming next. Sign up here: https://t.co/8ZLZCY6EXx